Analiza retoryczna debat przedwyborczych : finałowa telewizyjna debata prezydencka : Bronisław Komorowski i Andrzej Duda, 21 maja 2015 r.

Abstract

Authors of this article analyzed the final tv election debate between Komorowski and Duda on 21 May 2015 in the presidential elections. The debate can be classified as a rhetoric genre. The authors focused on such elements of the debate as the discussion structure and ways of argumentation used by political leaders. In the rhetoric approach to the debate, first and foremost is a clash of ethos, because ethos itself presents the speaker as a man of dignity, a trustworthy politician. That is why among the main fields of interest there are issues if the candidate gives arguments referring to his ethos or if more attention is paid to the distraction of the opponent’s ethos and of the very debate can be classified as a dialogue or rather agon.