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The present contribution offers a comparative study of the linguistic construction of Jews in Polish and American dailies published over two decades after World War II. The questions the chapter seeks to answer concern (i) change over time in construal, speakers’ attitudes and strategies used, (ii) the role of preceding external discourses and of the political leaning of the press in shaping social actors’ representations, as well as (iii) apparent differences between the two source corpora, Polish vs. American, regarding the locus of interest. Two research hypotheses are being tested, namely that Polish authors would resort more often than their American counterparts to the strategy of victimisation (Reisigl and Wodak, Discourse and discrimination: Rhetorics of racism and antisemitism. Routledge, London/New York, 2001) and that, with time, harbingers of the Polish 1968 political crisis (known as March ‘68) would appear in the Polish data in the form of anti-Jewish sentiments, echoing Soviet, post-Stalinist, anti-Zionist propaganda. Placed at the intersection of Cognitive Linguistics, Historical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, the study employs both qualitative and quantitative methods, with an overarching assumption that linguistic structure lends indirect access to construal operations which serve as “intertextual references” (Baden, Reconstructing frames from intertextual news discourse: A semantic network approach to news framing analysis. In: D’Angelo, P. (ed.) Doing news framing analysis II, p. 10, Routledge, New York/London, 2018) instrumental in framing, ideology communication and persuasion (Hart, Moving beyond metaphor in the cognitive linguistic approach to CDA. In: Hart, C. (ed.) Critical discourse studies in context and cognition, p. 182, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011).

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“A Plague from the East?”: The Discursive Construction of Jews in Polish and American Dailies Between 1945 and 1965

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    2026年

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  • Anna Rogos-Hebda

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The present contribution offers a comparative study of the linguistic construction of Jews in Polish and American dailies published over two decades after World War II. The questions the chapter seeks to answer concern (i) change over time in construal, speakers’ attitudes and strategies used, (ii) the role of preceding external discourses and of the political leaning of the press in shaping social actors’ representations, as well as (iii) apparent differences between the two source corpora, Polish vs. American, regarding the locus of interest. Two research hypotheses are being tested, namely that Polish authors would resort more often than their American counterparts to the strategy of victimisation (Reisigl and Wodak, Discourse and discrimination: Rhetorics of racism and antisemitism. Routledge, London/New York, 2001) and that, with time, harbingers of the Polish 1968 political crisis (known as March ‘68) would appear in the Polish data in the form of anti-Jewish sentiments, echoing Soviet, post-Stalinist, anti-Zionist propaganda. Placed at the intersection of Cognitive Linguistics, Historical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, the study employs both qualitative and quantitative methods, with an overarching assumption that linguistic structure lends indirect access to construal operations which serve as “intertextual references” (Baden, Reconstructing frames from intertextual news discourse: A semantic network approach to news framing analysis. In: D’Angelo, P. (ed.) Doing news framing analysis II, p. 10, Routledge, New York/London, 2018) instrumental in framing, ideology communication and persuasion (Hart, Moving beyond metaphor in the cognitive linguistic approach to CDA. In: Hart, C. (ed.) Critical discourse studies in context and cognition, p. 182, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011).