The paper presents the results of an empirical study on proximization approached as a dialogue between journalists and
readers of Internet media texts and online comments. In this way the paper shows a practical application of the research programme, whose
tenets I presented elsewhere (Kowalski 2018), in relation to Polish and Romanian reciprocal media
coverage on the winter 2016/2017 protests in the two countries, and follow-up online comments. The analysis shows that participants used
proximization for different communicative purposes (descriptive or evaluative), for which they employed different reportoires of
proximization strategies (categorization, domestication, construing hybrid IDC/ODC worlds, historical analogies, and references to cultural
stereotypes). As a result, there was no consensus on a shared Discourse Space, and alternative Discourse Spaces were negotiated in the
online dialogue.
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