Discourses of leadership in the 2015–2023 Poland: From conflict and crisis, to a “smiling state”
Piotr Cap
Abstract:The present paper employs conceptual tools of critical cognitive discourse studies (discourse space research, metaphor analysis, proximization) to explore patterns of legitimization discourse used by top Polish political parties to claim state leadership in the years 2015–2023. The first part studies the discourse of Law & Justice, a far-right conservative party ruling Poland from October 2015 to October 2023. It describes L&J’s strategies of leadership legitimization involving socio-ideological polari… Show more
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