Scare quotes as scare tactics: The use of quotation in ultraconservative Polish discourse

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Waśniewska, Małgorzata
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2026-02-19
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Discourse & Society
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2
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37
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337-354
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0957-9265
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The paper examines the role of quotation in shaping social attitudes and reinforcing norms and values within the discourse on issues such as abortion, hate speech, and LGBT+ rights of the Polish ultraconservative organization Centrum Życia i Rodziny. The aim of the paper is to classify and analyze the use of different varieties of quotation, with a particular focus on the distancing and expressive functions of scare quotation. It also examines instances of non-standard uses of name-informing, direct, and mixed quotation, and how these can be transformed into scare quotes and employed as a rhetorical strategy to support or delegitimize ideological stances and elicit action or emotional responses from the reader. Through corpus-based qualitative analysis, the paper attempts to identify the possible goals and motivations behind the use of quotation – especially scare quotes – and illustrate its strategic use in discourse.
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abortion
delegitimization
direct quotation
distancing
hate speech
LGBT rights
mixed quotation
persuasion
pure quotation
scare quotes
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