Przejawy świadomości językowej w zakresie stosowania perswazyjnych aktów mowy w średniopolskich diariuszach sejmowych
Manifestations of language awareness in the use of persuasive acts of speech in Middle Polish Sejm diaries

Summary/Abstract: Persuasion as a rhetorical action is the basic indicator of parliamentary speech. Therefore, itseems reasonable to ask whether the diarists describing the course of Sejm proceedings were awareof the use of persuasive acts of speech by MPs. The material analysed — 24 lexemes referring to theverbal acts of the speakers — was extracted from a dozen or so Sejm diaries documenting the pro-ceedings in the Middle Polish period. The research has proven that diarists use verba dicendi, whichindicate the result of a verbal act (e.g. namawiać, zagrzewać, pobudzać, obmawiać, napominać andanimować) or that they pay attention to the persuasion process itself (e.g. dowodzić, emundowaćsię, perswadować, wywodzić, konwinkować, allegować, okazować and remonstrować). In addition,the following nouns are used: dowód, wywód, komparacyja, argument, perswazyja, konkluzyja andracyja. Diarists deliberately use a variety of lexis because they strive to name the verbal acts of thespeakers as precisely as possible.

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