On the concepts of history (historia) and society (społeczeństwo) in the Polish parliamentary discourse (based on the corpus of parliamentary transcripts from 1918–2018)

Michał Szczyszek

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0253-7296


Abstract

The work conducted for over ten months at IPI PAN has resulted in the creation of a working (and still further developed) corpus of the 20th-century Polish parliamentarisms. The corpus was created using parliamentary transcripts from the years 1918–2018 and as for now it contains nearly 200 million segments. On this basis, a preliminary analytical work on the language of the Polish parliamentarism of the twentieth century is being conducted. One of the first issues is the preliminary lexicographical and lexicological analysis of the assembled corpus. In order to show the extent of the corpus and its chronological complexity, a lexical and semantic analysis will be subjected to, for example, such lexemes as historia (history) and społeczeństwo (society). The analysis of the usage of these items in the Polish parliamentary discourse has shown that they are high frequency words, and that their meanings are subject to “specific pressures of parliamentarism” and slightly differ (depending on a particular period in history) from the meanings traditionally assigned to them in Polish lexicography.

Keywords:

semantics, lexicography, words, lexical frequency, Korpusomat

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Published
2021-11-22


Szczyszek, M. (2021) “On the concepts of history (historia) and society (społeczeństwo) in the Polish parliamentary discourse (based on the corpus of parliamentary transcripts from 1918–2018)”, Białostockie Archiwum Językowe, (21), pp. 139–160. doi: 10.15290/baj.2021.21.09.

Michał Szczyszek 
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0253-7296