Małgorzata Pilecka
Ateneum Academy in Gdańsk, Poland; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4815-2949
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36534/erlj.2023.02.08
Bibliographic citation: (ISSN 2657-9774) Educational Role of Language Journal. Volume 2023-2(10). THE EMOTIONAL DIMENSION OF LANGUAGE AND OF LINGUISTIC EDUCATION, pp. 94-102.
Abstract
The aim of this article is to show the results of the pedagogical qualitative research on the emotional dimension of language propaganda in Polish children’s songs. As a text of culture, children’s songs are both carriers and transmitters of the linguistic image of the world, and for this reason they can possibly serve as a tool for linguistic and ideological manipulation. By applying the method of a qualitative discourse analysis, the author has studied 136 contemporary music pieces, paying attention both on their text and melodic layers. The gathered data revealed that many of the analysed songs contain words, phrases and other linguistic means typical for propaganda text. The characteristic of such texts developed by various researchers was used to distinguish the features of language and melody that could indicate the manipulative nature of the message transmitted by the songs.
Keywords: children’s songs, linguistic worldview, language propaganda
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