Argumentacja uczniowska w wypowiedziach na temat uzależnienia jako rodzaju współczesnej niewoli

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show ways of pupils’ argumentation referring to the subject: Addiction as a threat to men’s freedom. The subject was realized mainly in the form of argumentative texts (essays) by pupils from the first forms while pupils of the third forms the most often drew up letters. Both in essays and in letters the process of inducing took different form: imperative orders as well as warnings. In argumentative texts (essays) pupils used directive inducing setting forth first of all arguments (both in the first and third forms) and inductive examples (in the first forms). In letters they applied subdirective inducing aiming requests and pieces of advice at the receivers. The main purpose of argumentation was realized by pupils by means of the same argumentative figures of speech. In both types of produced texts their authors controlled the receivers showing addiction as a kind of modern slavery and setting forth arguments that addiction means activity under pressure, isolation, and lack of consciousness. The analysis of the texts allowed to explicate the notion of addiction in pupils’ use and to reconstruct the logical structure of pupils’ argumentation.