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Vol. 26 (2016): Kulturowe uwarunkowania zachowań językowych — tradycja i zmiana

Świat wynalazków i odkryć naukowych w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym — wybrane strategie dyskursu popularnonaukowego w prasie

  • Marcin Poprawa
DOI
https://doi.org/10.19195/1232-9657.26.11
Submitted
22 February 2017
Published
22-02-2017

Abstract

 

World of scientific discoveries in Polish popular press 1918–1939. The main strategies of popularization of knowledge in media discourse

The author of the article has two research objectives. The first one is to describe and analyse main strategies of popularization of science in Polish press 1918–1939. The article also highlights some aspects, tendencies and reception of media text media discourse: picture of the world of science and achievements, strategies used by journalists to write about difficult topics e.g. translating difficult problems into easier stylistic form, used by them rules of “Plain Language”. The second purpose of the article is to overview historical, cultural context and hidden implications persuasive strategies in the public discourse about the role of science in Poland before the Second World War.