Abstract
In this thesis the phenomenon under examination is newspeak -a highly manipulative form of political language. The proposed research, conducted from the perspective of political language, attempts to account for mechanisms that govern the use of newspeak in Anglo-Saxon countries, including Poland. A special emphasis is given to the newspeak of the Polish Fourth Republic - a fictional concept coined by the Law and Justice party (PiS). Firstly, the study explicates the notion of political language and highlights its manipulative nature. Furthermore, key elements of political discourse are presented. In the second chapter, the term newspeak is introduced and thoroughly examined. The author concentrates her efforts on displaying the properties of newspeak in a precise context, before the 2008 US Presidential Elections and during Tony Blair' s rule in Great Britain.
