This paper aims to conduct an initial analysis of the means of communicating such features of the verbal statements of an author – namely Magdalena Środa and Szymon Hołownia – as being “engaged” or “a realist”. The results presented below are the result of empirical research in which subjects reading the columns assigned their writers the features they felt described them, among which appeared both “engaged” and “a realist.” Next, the respondents selected those fragments that, in their opinions, expressed those features. This enabled the means of communication of the features to be identified and typified during the analysis of stylistics and discourse.