Open AccessPogrzeb Wojciecha Korfantego w świetle wybranych tytułów prasowych
Author(s) -
Filip Paluch
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
sowiniec
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2449-8718
pISSN - 1425-1965
DOI - 10.12797/sowiniec.28.2017.50-51.03
Subject(s) - politics , independence (probability theory) , state (computer science) , performative utterance , context (archaeology) , war of independence , collective memory , history , relation (database) , law , sociology , political science , ethnology , art , military service , archaeology , aesthetics , statistics , mathematics , database , algorithm , computer science
Wojciech Korfanty’s Funeral in Light of Selected Press TitlesThe funerals of political activists from the generation of the fathers of Polish independence were considered to be events of great socio‑political significance in the final years of the Second Polish Republic. The funeral ceremonies were placed within the context of growing war‑related tensions and the internal political situation in the country; frequently, they were of a performative nature, affirming the community of a given political milieu as well as, as in the case of the funeral of Józef Piłsudski, the civic community of the Polish state. An event that partly due to the outbreak of World War II has not endured in collective memory is the funeral of Wojciech Korfanty. While analyzing the social reception of the mourning ceremonies related to the politician’s sudden death, the author has made use of seven press titles that represented a reliable spectrum of opinions expressed by the nation’s political milieus. The aim of this article is to present and analyze the discourse that took place in selected press titles in relation to the death of Wojciech Korfanty, the initiator of the Third Silesian Uprising.