INSTYTUT LITERATUROZNAWSTWA I JĘZYKOZNAWSTWA

Studia Filologiczne UJK

Philological Studies

ISSN 2300-5459 e-ISSN 2450-0380

 

 

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
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Volume 36

Summary

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.