Czy pracoholizm jest chorobą? Argumentacja w tekstach studentów z Moskwy na zajęciach z języka polskiego

Abstract

The paper is focused on analysis of the ways of argumentation in texts written by students from the State University in Moscow who came to Poland realizing a project of students’ exchange. The analysis allowed to characterize the course of argumentation and to separate opening, argumentation, and closing phases. To motivate the proposition submitted in the subject Is workaholism a disease? the students used both simple and (coordinately and subordinately) complex arguments. In the introduced arguments that refer to consequences, fear or certain knowledge the students used linguistic means that in persuasion acts are to make an impression of freedom regarding a decision taken.