TY - JOUR AU - Kłosińska, Katarzyna PY - 2020/09/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Who was patriota in the propaganda language of the Polish People’s Republic? Analysis of usage of the lexeme patriota and its derivatives in “Trybuna Ludu” in 1985 JF - Prace Językoznawcze JA - PJUWM VL - 22 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.31648/pj.5814 UR - https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pj/article/view/5814 SP - 57-72 AB - <p>The first part of the paper is a short discussion on the concept of patriotism – it The first<br>part of the article is a short discussion on the concept of patriotism, presenting it from<br>various cognitive perspectives. The main part of the text focuses on a semantic-pragmatic<br>analysis of the Polish lexemes patriota, patriotyzm, patriotyczny, patriotycznie (a patriot,<br>patriotism, patriotic, patriotically), which occurred in “Trybuna Ludu” in 1985. Facet<br>(aspect) analysis, which was embraced as a methodological tool of the research, allows<br>one to distinguish categories of features assigned to the designatum (referent) and characterize them within each category. The analysis aims to extract a conceptual variant&nbsp;of the meaning of the Polish lexeme patriota in the depicted context of requirements<br>that the propaganda of the Polish People’s Republic had to meet (namely, the need<br>to perform a ritual and persuade, while its informative value was low).</p> ER -