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Critical Media Studies Lecture 1</div>
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<div>What’s ‘rainbow’ got to do with it? Discourse analysis and media representations of LGBTQ+ issues in Poland<br>
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This talk presents two case studies of media discourse in Poland, focusing on theories and methods that draw from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and related approaches, and on how these can help us examine and interpret how words can be strategically appropriated,
redefined, and recontextualized. The central thesis on which this talk builds is that meanings – of words, phrases, and concepts – are never stable and final, but rather dynamic and negotiable. They can become sites of ideological, political, and cultural
struggle (Laclau 1990). Discourse analysis provides an excellent and concrete tool through which we can examine just how users of language – be they politicians, journalists, influencers, activists, or anyone else – employ tactics that shape meanings in particular
ways. The two case studies discussed in this talk examine media discourse surrounding LGBTQ+ issues and what the “phantasm” of “gender ideology” (Butler 2019) in Poland. The first analyzes how the lexeme têcza “rainbow” is used across liberal and rightwing
media outlets in Poland and argues that it has become a floating signifier through which the contrasting visions of Poland’s history and future are being fought over. The second offers a detailed discourse analysis of an email newsletter sent out to subscribers
by a far-right Polish organization, Center for Life and Family, in which language – including mentions of “rainbow” as a stand-in for “gender/LGBTQ+” – is manipulated in ways that construct a particular, cisheteropatriarchal and Catholic nationalist version
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