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“All men (…) up to a certain point, endeavour to criticise or uphold an argument, to defend themselves or to
accuse” (Aristotle, 1959: 3). Hence politicians cannot do otherwise and “rhetoric as a technique of argument (...)
rather than of ornamentation”, one of the oldest surviving disciplines (Dixon, 1971: 14), whose insights and rules
still possess the capacity to adjust to the ideological and social change (Cockcroft and Cockcroft, 2005: 3), is to
forward the achievement of the goals politicians work towards. In this study an attempt is made to depict the
persuasive dialogue in the functional language, i.e. the language of politicians in the Polish political arena. Prior
to that, structuring the content of the article, a theoretical background and methodology are proposed based on
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle (1959). Three kinds of proofs, means of persuasion or structural principles by
virtue of which the goal is attained, i.e. ethos, pathos and logos, are addressed. In the part to follow we will
analyse several models of arguments which prevail in the political speeches as well as various means of
rendering ethos and pathos.
keywords in English:
language of politicians, inventio, ethos, pathos, logos
number of pulisher's sheets:
1,29
conference:
First International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia : the Days of Ivo Škarić; 2012-04-19; 2012-04-22; Postira; Chorwacja; ; ; ;
affiliation:
Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Angielskiej