Językowe i tekstowe sposoby popularyzacji wiedzy prawnej w niemieckiej prasie opiniotwórczej i bulwarowej – pilotażowa analiza intralingwalna

The aim of the following paper is to present and discuss the issue of popularisation of specialised knowledge, in particular legal knowledge. For this purpose the author carried out a pilot analysis of selected articles from the German broadsheets and tabloids. The analysis is preceded by theoretical considerations of specialised knowledge, especially of legal knowledge, its transfer and popularisation in media. Then, the selected press articles were examined based on the techniques and strategies of popularisation described by Niederhauser. The analysis has shown that the techniques and strategies of popularisation of legal knowledge are different depending on the newspaper type. In particular, they differ in the field of content reduction and density, in the field of syntax and text structure, as well as aesthetics of visual materials.