Mechanizmy wartościowania w felietonach Jana Ciski [The valuation machanismus in Jan Cisk´s feuillet...

The paper discusses mechanisms of evaluation used in one of the genres of press texts: the serial story (feuilleton). These mechanisms are defined in the paper as text strategies, and they serve as the basis for the analysis of the source material (117 stories in the cycle Przystanek na Rynku Wieluńskim published in Niedziela weekly in the years 1998-2000). The analysis rests upon three categories of evaluation strategies: evaluation through metaphor and symbols found in nature, including colours; evaluation through description of protagonists; as well as evaluation through description of surroundings with its representative community. The analysis helps reveal a vast range of linguistic and stylistic means of evaluation (e.g. evaluative lexical items, metaphor, symbol, contrastive expressions) employed by the author. The primacy of the transcendent, moral and socio-normative values in the axiology of the author is another conclusion to the analytical section of the paper.