| Author | Piotr Zbróg |
|---|---|
| Title | Text and its message as the foundation for constructing social representations of objects |
| Keywords | social representations, contextual anchoring, text, text message |
| Pages | 355-367 |
| Full text | |
| Volume | 36 |
The theory of social representations regards the study of text in discourse as a crucial aspect for discovering ways of describing and perceiving phenomena, ideas in the space of public communication.
The article discusses the main textual mechanisms that allow for the construction of the resource of social representations. These mechanisms appear in articles and media publications, in the statements of participants in discussions on forums, blogs, and posts, etc. Thanks to them, new phenomena become more understandable in public debate, old ideas undergo redefinitions, and previous observations are updated or contested. The described mechanisms also have a metacommunicative potential because they enable discursive circulation in the public sphere.