Obraz minionej epoki w programie telewizyjnym Legendy PRL

Abstract

Legendy PRL (The Legends of the People’s Republic of Poland) is a TV programme which has been broadcast by a Polish TV station TVN Turbo since 2007. It presents automobiles and other vehicles from the period before 1989 when Poland was a socialist country. The vehicles are used as a point of departure to talk about the life in the previous system in Poland. With reference to methodological demands made by the representatives of discourse-historical approach I analysed 19 episodes of the programme. Legendy PRL most often makes use of the strategy of peculiarity which consist in stressing the differences in the social and economic life in socialist and present-day Poland. The picture of the former times painted in the programme is varied. The makers refer to discourse strategies which are aimed at evoking two feelings in the viewers: sentiment – when they show the bright sides of the life in socialist Poland – and resentment – when the dark sides of that life are presented.