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The linguistic methods of creating extraordinariness employed by the opinion-forming weeklies. The rhetorical study
Patrycja Pelc
Abstract
The doctoral thesis is dedicated to a linguistic outlook on extraordinariness, a phenomenon noticed by media scholars and defined as a principle of mass communications referring to the media’s tendency (evinced especially by the non-quality media) to exploit the fascinating issues which question the order of things and heighten curiosity. The aim of the doctoral thesis is to propose the definition of extraordinariness, determine its linguistic manifestations in a text, as well as to order the thematic motives pertinent to it and its functions within a text. The study reveals extraordinariness as a rhetorical category, by analogy with an esthetic category, represented by a group of persuasive mechanisms for creating enlarged/diminished spaces, projecting antinomian configurations of ordinariness and extraordinariness, increasing the level of emotionalizing. The research material is journalistic texts published in the three most widely-read opinion-forming weeklies in Poland, “Newsweek”, “Wprost”, and “Polityka” from 2001-2011.- Record ID
- UAMef2cad8980a84731a04b492086220e87
- Diploma type
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Author
- Title in Polish
- Językowe sposoby kreowania nadzwyczajności w prasie opiniotwórczej. Studium retoryczne
- Title in English
- The linguistic methods of creating extraordinariness employed by the opinion-forming weeklies. The rhetorical study
- Language
- pol (pl) Polish
- Certifying Unit
- Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology (SNoJiL/WFPiK/FoPaCP)
- Discipline
- linguistics / (humanities) / (humanities)
- Scientific discipline (2.0)
- Status
- Finished
- Defense Date
- 29-12-2014
- Title date
- 29-12-2014
- Supervisor
- URL
- http://hdl.handle.net/10593/12455 Opening in a new tab
- Keywords in English
- rhetoric,hyperbole, emotive function, persuasive strategies, sociopolitical journalism
- Abstract in English
- The doctoral thesis is dedicated to a linguistic outlook on extraordinariness, a phenomenon noticed by media scholars and defined as a principle of mass communications referring to the media’s tendency (evinced especially by the non-quality media) to exploit the fascinating issues which question the order of things and heighten curiosity. The aim of the doctoral thesis is to propose the definition of extraordinariness, determine its linguistic manifestations in a text, as well as to order the thematic motives pertinent to it and its functions within a text. The study reveals extraordinariness as a rhetorical category, by analogy with an esthetic category, represented by a group of persuasive mechanisms for creating enlarged/diminished spaces, projecting antinomian configurations of ordinariness and extraordinariness, increasing the level of emotionalizing. The research material is journalistic texts published in the three most widely-read opinion-forming weeklies in Poland, “Newsweek”, “Wprost”, and “Polityka” from 2001-2011.
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info/phd/UAMef2cad8980a84731a04b492086220e87/
- URN
urn:amu-prod:UAMef2cad8980a84731a04b492086220e87