O niektórych mechanizmach retorycznych w tekstach populizmu politycznego
On certain rhetorical mechanisms in texts regarding political populism

Summary/Abstract: Political populism is characterised by extremely sharp, emphatic, radical manner of speaking. To this end it takes advantage of several rhetorical mechanisms which serve the reinforcement of utterances. This paper analyses such linguistic means as: epithet, metaphor, irony, hyperbole, rhetorical question, as well as the realisation of the we-you (they) opposition. The use of such rhetorical means is conditioned on the fact that the recipients of these texts are ordinary people – the domain of populists’ activities. Polish populist texts after 1989 are shaped to suit the level of recipients. No complex figures of speech are to be encountered there.

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