Abstrakt: | The article describes three spheres of culture which can be used as sources of texts for linguistics
classes, evoked by the nicknames mentioned in the title: Pudelek.pl (a gossip website) as a source of
mass culture texts, Polityka (a widely-read opinion weekly) as an example of the political discourse,
and finally Jeremi Przybora (a perfectionist lord of the Polish language) as an example of the highbrow
culture texts. The article results from author’s own teaching experience. She introduces vocabulary
of the public discourse, distinguishing between the “flagship” words, the winged words, and the words that changed their due to the influence of political correctness (i.e. words which were “turned
inside out”). Particularly important here seem to be the winged words which, characterized by their
condensed form, are able to built both cultural continuity and group identity. Therefore, amongst the
selected texts are also those by/about the persons related to university. |