Ojczyzna, ale jaka? Profilowanie konceptu OJCZYZNY w polskich dyskursach publicznych

Abstract

HOMELAND, BUT WHAT KIND? PROFILING THE CONCEPT OF HOMELAND IN POLISH PUBLIC DISCOURSES

The structure of the homeland concept includes permanent (nuclear) and variable components, conditioned by subjective factors and a broad social, political and cultural context. Homeland, being an ideologized concept and saturated with emotions, because it remains in a network of numerous connections and entanglements – with the nation, history, tradition, religion, language, land of the fathers and the memory of ancestors – is sometimes used by politicians and ideologists as a tool for propaganda or campaign and election purposes. The article analyses the profiling of the concept of homeland in five public discourses: 1) Catholic (in its variants: institutional-Church, liberal-Catholic, national-Catholic), 2) liberal-democratic, 3) national-right, 4) left-wing, 5) anarchist, radical liberal. The profiles of homeland are dynamic in them – they oscillate between three situations: real (underlying the concept is a modal judgment: the homeland as it is), desirable (the homeland as it should be) and possible (the homeland as it can be).