Tęczowe dusze i ciała. Retoryka LGBTQ+ w polskojęzycznych publikacjach internetowych lat ostatnich
Rainbow souls and bodies. LGBTQ+ rhetoric in the Polish-language onlinepublications released in recent years

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to present the rhetorical analysis of selected publications which can be currently found in the Internet and which deal with the issues covered by the acronym LGBTQ+ (and its variants). Differentia specifica of various definitions of the notion (star-ting with “people” and “community” to “ideology” and “degeneration”) manifests itself in, among others, the reference to two other, highly significant, because persuasively catchy notions: health and disease, both of the body and the mind, on which the analysis taking into account all textual dimensions (inventio, dispositio and elocutio) on the one hand, and extratextual (communication, contextualand consituational) conditions of the internet “dispute” about LGBTQ+, focuses. The description of how the notions of “health” (somatic and mental) and “disease” (also dual) are used in this analysis lead to the final conclusion that the twofold approach to LGBTQ constitutes the incarnation of, to a certain extent, the perennial civilizational or cultural conflict between barbarity and huma-nism, whose depositary, among others, also (classical) rhetoric in one of its numerous meanings remains

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