SELECTED ASPECTS OF THE POLITICAL LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE.

The paper captures a cross-section of the dynamics of the semiotic political linguistic landscape (PLL) in Banska Bystrica. The PLL is perceived as a linguistic landscape (LL) used for political purposes, i.e. the LL that is used to express a political stance in order to agitate, argue and defend specific politically attuned positions. The urban space contains reminiscences of the electoral struggle ahead of the 2022 local elections. The main objective was to analyse and compare chosen PLL with a time interval of one year. The author also notes the LL immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in March 2022 and the reflection of these events in the semiotics of the LL. She confronts this spacial-temporal moment with the current state of affairs in March 2023. Through the methods of observation, description, analysis, and comparison, the author comes to conclusion about the misuse of the themes of war and war refugee and leavers for political reasons reflected in the LL semiotics. The research results show value clashes reflected by the layering of the studied signs, which are manifested by dialogicality and expressiveness often caused by the anonymity of their interlocutors. The study concludes that the dynamics of the LL narrative is strongly influenced by the state of war in the neighbouring country, not only in the static signs but also in the mobile signs found and examined in the LL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]