El mesianismo ofendido: el discurso público en Polonia sobre la Unión Europea

[email protected] ensayo describe las características del discurso público producido en Polonia sobre la Unión Europea. Entendemos como discurso público el que se caracteriza mediante los atributos de autoridad (es decir, aquel que producen los intelectuales y políticos) y difusión (canalizado por medios y técnicas de distribución masiva).This paper deals with the character of Polish public discourse about the European Union. Public discourse means here a discourse based on authority (the discourse of intellectuals and politicians) and on diffusion (through means of communication)[email protected]

La cosificació de les normes d'ús lingüístic: aspectes sociològics d'un discurs distorsionat

The subject matter of sociolinguistics are the rules or patterns of the functioning of language. But rules and transgressions are complementary facts, and sociolinguists must study both conventional and intentional language use (that is, traditional and meaningful social actions). When sociolinguistics deals exclusively with norms, but ne t with transgressions, sociolinguists reify a socially constructed reality. By applying the concept of reification, we consider that sociolinguists confuse rules, laws and regularities; therefore, more interpretation is needed to complement explanation, and it seems that sociolinguistics needs more «research programmes» studying the importance of individuals and individual meaningful action in sociolinguistic structures

Ús lingüístic, legitimitat i discurs: consideracions weberianes

The “psychosociological turn” of the sociology of language entails a new attention paid to the role of agency in language use. But this new approach can be coherent and complete only by taking into account the historical and political circumstances of language use, as well as the whole set of factors determining the processes by which social meanings are created and distributed. On the basis of the Weberian concept of legitimacy, this paper tries to outline the characteristics of the relationship between social discourses and the patterns of language use. It ends with some reflections on the utility and the difficulties of using critical discourse analysis in order to understand the symbolic side of language use