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

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dc.abstract.enThe 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.
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Humanistycznych
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Humanistycznych w Warszawie
dc.contributor.authorWaśniewska, Małgorzata
dc.date.access2026-03-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-13T12:08:54Z
dc.date.available2026-03-13T12:08:54Z
dc.date.created2025-05-05
dc.date.issued2026-02-19
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>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.</jats:p>
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dc.description.physical337-354
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dc.description.volume37
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/09579265261420954
dc.identifier.eissn1460-3624
dc.identifier.issn0957-9265
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/2216
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dc.subject.enabortion
dc.subject.endelegitimization
dc.subject.endirect quotation
dc.subject.endistancing
dc.subject.enhate speech
dc.subject.enLGBT rights
dc.subject.enmixed quotation
dc.subject.enpersuasion
dc.subject.enpure quotation
dc.subject.enscare quotes
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dc.titleScare quotes as scare tactics: The use of quotation in ultraconservative Polish discourse
dc.title.journalDiscourse &amp; Society
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