The discourse about immigrants. Argumentation strategies in Polish weekly magazines

The article deals with the problem of different argumentation strategies inside the discourse about immigrants. In the beginning there is a short description of immigration phenomena in Poland. The next section explains the main methodological assumptions (social representation, framing) and basic a...

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Main Author: Marcin Kotras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2016-12-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/sociologica/article/view/1998
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Summary:The article deals with the problem of different argumentation strategies inside the discourse about immigrants. In the beginning there is a short description of immigration phenomena in Poland. The next section explains the main methodological assumptions (social representation, framing) and basic analytical categories applied in researches presented in this paper. The main part of the article concerns the research outcomes. They concentrates on different types of argumentation strategies in III RP and IV RP weekly magazines. Final results show the contradictions between two types of narrations about the immigrants and about expected crisis solutions. In the last segment of the article it is expressed that the immigration issue is one of the factors in the process of social cleavages sustain, especially when it comes to the attitude towards modernization and system transformation.
ISSN:0208-600X