TV Spectacle or Rational Debate? Analysis of the Key-words and Argumentation Strategies About EU in Chosen Political Programmes of Public Television.. Cover Image

Telewizyjny „spektakl” czy racjonalna debata? Analiza słownictwa i strategii argumentacyjnych w wybranych programach politycznych TVP1...
TV Spectacle or Rational Debate? Analysis of the Key-words and Argumentation Strategies About EU in Chosen Political Programmes of Public Television..

Author(s): Barbara Jabłońska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Łódzki - Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny
Keywords: Debate; Discourse; Critical Discourse Analysis; Deliberative Democracy; Strategies of Argumentation; Pseudo-communication; Symbolic Power

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to consider the problem of political and public communication in selected television debates. In particular, there have been analyzed the strategies of argumentation and vocabulary used in the debates. The main question of the article refers to the problem of the quality of political debates: are they a kind of ritual spectacle, or are they based on rational argumentation? The whole consideration has been based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The most important goal of CDA is to reveal the structures of dominance and power located in language.

  • Issue Year: VI/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 36-59
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish