Identité sociale médiatisée à l’exemple de la presse française et polonaise

The article follows the trend of contemporary discursive research by approaching the problem of information media coverage. The main purpose is to describe discursive mechanisms responsible for creating conceptual social space necessary to perception process by individuals of a given society (social identity). The author presents a study of numerous discursive phenomena ordering them according to particular pragmatic objectives of media strategies, such as creating community environment, creating representation of social events, legitimacy of created information. The analysis is based on Polish and French informative press.