TY - JOUR
TI - Słowo „Murzyn” jako perlokucyjny akt mowy
AU - Ohia-Nowak, Margaret
TI - Słowo „Murzyn” jako perlokucyjny akt mowy
AB - 
	The word “Murzyn”as a perlocutionary speech act

	Whilst an array of words is used by white Poles to describe and denote Black people both outside Poland and within the country itself, in recent years, a heated public debate has taken place in Poland concerning the on-going use of the term Murzyn in everyday speech acts and in public discourse. The word actively reproduces anti-black stereotypes and racist meanings, and also conceals the prejudice, not least by virtue of the fact that a number of White Polish public persons claim that Murzyn is a neutral word used inoffensively to refer to Black people. Recently, as the demonstrations after George Floyd’s death spread across Europe, the continuing use of the term has been widely protested by Poles of African descent, and a growing number of Polish linguists argue against the word’s assumed neutrality. In this article, I draw upon the internalism and externalism in communication theory as I demonstrate perlocutionary effects of the word Murzyn from semi-interviews conducted with black Poles in 2014 and 2020, and utterance of Poles of African descent from media discourse between 2011 and 2020. With regard to the histories, experiences, and perspectives of Black communities in Poland, I argue that the derogatory meaning of the word depends  largely on its effects on thoughts and feelings of the recipient, namely the pragmatic perlocution and the externalist communication theory, and less on the intention of the speaker and the internalist communication theory.
VL - 2020
IS - Numer 3 (45)
PY - 2020
SN - 1895-975X
C1 - 2084-3860
SP - 195
EP - 212
DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.20.023.12583
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/artykul/slowo-murzyn-jako-perlokucyjny-akt-mowy
KW - Murzyn
KW - pragmalinguistics
KW - racism
KW - speech acts
KW - perlocution
KW - externalism
KW - internalism
KW - Black people in Poland