Threat rhetorics in the Polish political discourse – the analysis of press materials from Parliamentary election campaign in 2011 Cover Image

Retoryka groźby w polskim dyskursie politycznym – na podstawie materiałów prasowych z okresu parlamentarnej kampanii wyborczej 2011 roku
Threat rhetorics in the Polish political discourse – the analysis of press materials from Parliamentary election campaign in 2011

Author(s): Karolina Brylska
Subject(s): Media studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wydziału Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: threat; political discourse; political communication; broadsheets

Summary/Abstract: This article aims at describing the use of the threat in political communication, understood and analyzed in rhetorical and discursive terms. The author examines the position of threat in the theory of rhetoric as well as the use and functions of threat in contemporary Polish political discourse. The final part of the article has been devoted to case study of using the threat as a way of speaking about political opponents.

  • Issue Year: 59/2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 115-126
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish