RHETORIC AND ARGUMENTATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
RHETORIC AND ARGUMENTATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
Author(s): Daniela DuncaSubject(s): Political behavior, Political psychology, Politics and communication, Politics and society, History and theory of political science, Theory of Communication, Rhetoric
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: argumentation; rhetorical discourse; totalitarian discourse; otherness; pathos;
Summary/Abstract: The totalitarian discourse, as an instrument of terror, had the purpose of excluding otherness. Alterity, never innocent, was conceived as an adversary, an enemy, who had to be identified, unmasked and eliminated. Excitatory, the totalitarian discourse appeals through its rhetoric to a certain kind of pathos, which by its negativity, induces in public the installation of emotions of a destructive character. The totalitarian communist propaganda, both in Romania and in other countries of the former bloc of "popular democracies", built its rhetorical discourse of domination on this pathos, having as double purpose the induction of contempt and hatred towards adversaries, and then the emotional support, from the public, of the illegitimate acts that the regime wanted to impose.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 31
- Page Range: 303-309
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Romanian