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Argumentumad absurdum jako chwyt wykorzystywany w manipulacji językowej
Argumentum ad absurdum as a Device Used in Linguistic Manipulation

Author(s): Elżbieta Wierzbicka-Piotrowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: manipulacja językowa; erystyka; argumentum ad absurdum; linguistic manipulation; eristics; argumentum ad absurdum

Summary/Abstract: The article is a study of argumentum ad absurdum which takes its origin from apagoge, i.e. indirect proving of facts. The main subject of the article can be found in two versions - logical and eristic. The analysis of various examples used in polemical texts written in contemporary Polish enabled to create a linguistic characteristic of the eristic version which very often is adopted in linguistic manipulation.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 53
  • Page Range: 701-712
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish