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As of early 2020, six Slavic languages enjoy the official status in the European Union (EU): Bulgarian (since 2007), Croatian (since 2013), Czech (since 2004), Polish (since 2004), Slovak (since 2004), and Slovene (since 2004). As official EU languages, Slavic languages numerically rank behind Romance and Germanic languages. Polish and Russian are the two most commonly used Slavic languages in the EU. In terms of native speakers, Polish (with Spanish) ranks fifth in the EU. According to t…

Silesian is a language variety used predominantly in contemporary Poland and spoken by more than 500,000 people (2011 census data; Szałtys and Gudaszewski 2015). Its status as a dialect of Polish is disputed. Silesian is currently undergoing codification and standardization. Increasingly, Silesian is also continuing its expansion into domains previously restricted to (standard) Polish.Silesian ( slōnskŏ gŏdka, ISO 639-3 code szl) is a West Slavic (Lechitic) ethnolect spoken in the eastern part of the historical region of Silesia in southern Poland …

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a theoretical and methodological perspective used within the area of critical discourse studies (CDS). In the Slavic context, CDA-informed research represents a diverse and interdisciplinary body of work that tackles multiple topics and applies some of the best-known theoretical frameworks. This article introduces CDA as an approach within the larger enterprise of CDS, identifies some of the most common topical clusters within Slavic CDA work, and pres…