Argumenty do zdrowego rozsądku w dyskursie politycznym (na przykładzie wystąpień W.W. Putina)

Abstract

Political discourse is the discourse of the struggle for votes, therefore argumentation is in it widely used to convince opponents of the correctness of what has been said. The article presents one of the types of arguments used in the political discourse, arguments to common sense. The material for research is served by the official public texts of utterances made by V.V. Putin. Definition of arguments to common sense is provided and the main functions of this phenomenon are given. The analysis shows that arguments to common sense are indisputable, somehow obvious, accepted by the majority.