The attitudes of Poles in Russia to the Act of 5th November of 1916

This publication is dedicated to the response of Poles living in Russia during WWI to the Act of 5th November declared by Germany and Austria-Hungary. An analysis has been carried out on articles written by journalists and primarily democratic as well as national-democratic politicians in selected Polish newspapers published in Russia during WWI.

Italy, seen as the cradle of European culture and the destination of the wanderings of Polish intellectuals and artists, often appears in the Polish press of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Among the cities described, Padua is present, although it appears less frequently than Venice or Rome. Articles dedicated to this city, however, have a particular character, because not only is “Padova la dotta” famous for the cult of Saint Anthony, but it is most often presented in the contexts of centuriesold Italian-Polish relations linked mostly to the University and of the Paduan polonica. There are in fact two moments that find a particular resonance in the Polish press: the first, in 1922, for the seventh centenary of the University, and the second, in 1931, for the celebrations of the seventh centenary of Saint Anthony’s death. This article offers a review of the texts that have appeared in various periodicals and includes a brief presentation of the authors—scholars, artists, or journalists active in the promotion of Italian culture. From the texts published both in newspapers and in cultural magazines or even scientific periodicals, the image of the city emerges as strongly marked by the presence of Poles, who were students, university professors, or pilgrims.

Sinking of the Battleship “Pietropawłowsk” and the Figure of Vice Admiral Stepan Makarov in the Pages of “Kurier Warszawski” in April 1904

The author focuses on one of the finest Russian admirals of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries – Stepan Osipovich Makarov. The text is split into three parts, presenting several topics discussed in “Kurier Warszawski”, based on historical contents. The Polish press presents, for example, biography of the fallen Russian, and short reports of church devotions dedicated to him. Also included are simultaneously interesting and frightening descriptions of his reactions on losing his family. Another element of the work are his messages concerning the battle between Russian and Japanese fleets and the tragic death of the Russian admiral. The data on the casualties of the officers are the same as historiography presents. In case of navy, the number of the fallen differs from the number presented by Olender and Dyskant. Technical parameters of the sunken Russian ship match the observations made by researchers, although the moment of sinking differs from the findings made by this field’s professionals in the following decades.

The image of post-war Poland in the Polish press in Argentina – the example of Głos Polski (Polish Voice) of 1949

The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the image of socio-political changes in postwar Poland, which emerges from the press articles published in 1949 in the most important journal of the Polish community in Argentina, “Głos Polski”.

Belt and Road Initiative in a View of the Polish Press

This study analysed how the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is presented in the Polish press through language use in media discourse based on Jef Verschueren’s Language Adaptation Theory and corpus analysis. Antconc software has been used to distinguish the frequency of lexemes and expressions. The complexity of the Polish language and contexts require manual verification of the results. The number of writings about Belt and Road projects is fairly small. The sample consists of 103 articles categorised into four groups: general press, political press, education institution press, and business press. Articles refer to the period of 2015–2019, as the recent three years of the COVID-19 and war in Ukraine took the press’ focus away from the BRI. Corpus analysis shows a positive approach to the Best and Road Initiative dominates all press groups. Most lexemes are equally dispersed among all press categories with a slight predominance of caution suggested by authors in education institution press. The hypothesis was further confirmed in the light of Verschueren’s Theory, where the study presents examples of press language as a dynamic process of mutual adaptation between linguistic structure and context, at different levels of salience.