Some Remarks on the Receptionof an Ideologically Marked Text

Abstract

The Author analyses a selected text in terms of axiological markedness, including ideological markedness. The text conspicuously declares the sender’s Christian viewpoint. Next, the Author of this paper discusses the results of a questionnaire administered among students of journalism. The respondents answer questions whose aim is to indicate their method of text understanding, check students’ perception of the ideology ascribed to the author of the text under scrutiny, reveal the impressions the text makes as well as to uncover the ideological stand of the respondents. The majority of the respondents think that the author of the text wants to impose his opinion. The ideological stand declared by the students is mostly conservative and liberal, with religious fundamentalism being most often rejected.