| dc.description.abstract | According to a dictionary definition argumentation means reasoning, convincing with the use of arguments,
contention, motivation, argument. Objective (referring to a thesis) and non-
-objective (not directly linked to an expressed thesis) argumentations are also traditionally distinguished.
The subject of considerations in this paper is non-objective, non-essential argumentation in mediumistic discourse.
In public speeches, in the Internet, in the press and on TV the participants of a discourse (politicians and
journalists) use strategies of non-essential argumentation as a kind of linguistic manipulation.
In a modern Polish mediumistic discourse the following expressions are especially popular:
Jak pan/pani doskonale wie // jak państwu doskonale wiadomo (As you know for sure), niech pan mi nie przerywa //
niech pan nie przerywa, panie X (Don’t interrupt me, Mr. X), to (zdanie) zostało wyrwane / wyjęte / wycięte z
kontekstu (It [the sentence] was taken out of context). | en |
