Issues of Truth and Correctness vs. Rhetoric in Media Discourse

• Authors: Ostrowski, Marek

Abstracts

EN

Following Niklas Luhmann, the author assumes that communication creates social systems. The system therefore influences the nature of communication. The impact of rhetoric on media discourse can be understood as a result of the strategy adopted by the system. What follows from the above assumption is a discussion of the notion of truth which is fundamental to media philosophy. Systems, in their adopted strategies, affect the media and use persuasion in a way that is remote from the treatment of the truth as an idea or as a condition of an ethical nature.

Keywords

EN

communication; concept of truth; media

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 5

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Ostrowski, Marek

other

University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Department of Journalism and Public Communication

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/21383

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.35.01