The thesis of the text is, that growing up and surviving in totalitarian society (People’s Republic of Poland - PRL) had a profound effect on the mentality of Poles. Many authors – sociologists, linguists, and psychologists alike – have noted that living in a world created by totalitarian language determines and deforms the perception of reality, along with the categories in which the social world is perceived and described. This is precisely what I will argue in this paper.

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Tezą tekstu jest, że życie i wychowanie w totalitarnym społeczeństwie (PRL) nie mogło pozostać bez wpływu na mentalność dużej przynamniej części społeczeństwa. Wielu autorów, zarówno socjologów jak językoznawców i psychologów podkreślało w swoich pracach ten aspekt rzeczywistości stawiając tezę, że funkcjonowanie w świecie wykreowanym przez totalitarny język determinuje i deformuje postrzeganie rzeczywistości i kategorii opisu świata społecznego.
 

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The thesis of the text is, that growing up and surviving in totalitarian society (People’s Republic of Poland - PRL) had a profound effect on the mentality of Poles. Many authors – sociologists, linguists, and psychologists alike – have noted that living in a world created by totalitarian language determines and deforms the perception of reality, along with the categories in which the social world is perceived and described. This is precisely what I will argue in this paper.

This Article is made in Open Access, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.pl