Polish-Hungarian Friendship in the Contemporary Polish Press

The bachelor thesis Polish-Hungarian Friendship in the Contemporary Polish Press deals with the Polish-Hungarian friendship, the phenomenon of traditionally good mutual relations between the two nations, in selected Polish press periodicals (Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka, Rzeczpospolita and Wprost). Firstly, the phenomenon of the Polish-Hungarian friendship and the relevant situation concerning the contemporary Polish press (especially the ideological and ownership factors) are introduced. Consequently, word frequency analyses and qualitative content analyses of the corpora comprising of articles concerning the Hungarian and Polish- Hungarian history and the peak of financial crisis in Hungary in 2008 are conducted; the individual periodicals are analysed, as well as the groups of titles (liberal and conservative) and all the periodicals as a whole. Lastly, a synthesis of the analyses' results is conducted and the research question, whether any signs of the Polish-Hungarian friendship can really be found in the Polish press and whether they are more significant in the conservative group of periodicals, is answered