Krzysztof Bosak’s Nomination Acceptance Speech – Transposing an American Genre into Polish Political Rhetoric

• Authors: Marcin Kosman

Title variants

PL

Przemówienie akceptacyjne Krzysztofa Bosaka. Transpozycja amerykańskiego gatunku do polskiej retoryki politycznej

Abstracts

PL

Artykuł łączy metody z zakresu retorycznych studiów gatunkowych oraz podejścia dyskursywno-historycznego w celu przeprowadzenia kompleksowej analizy przemówienia Krzysztofa Bosaka, wygłoszonego podczas prawyborów prezydenckich Konfederacji w 2020 r. Omawiany gatunek jest rzadko realizowany w kontekście europejskim. Biorąc pod uwagę różnice między amerykańskim i polskim systemem politycznym, Bosak nie zastosował się do wszystkich wzorców standardowej odmiany tego gatunku. Jego przemówienie wydaje się raczej przypominać mowę akceptacyjną wygłaszaną przez kandydata reprezentującego pomniejsze formacje (third-parties). Zasadniczo Bosak przyjął rolę lidera podzielonej i niejednorodnej partii, której media głównego nurtu nie poświęciły zbyt wiele uwagi. W artykule zbadano, w jaki sposób czynniki te wpłynęły na strukturę i treść przemówienia. Co więcej, w ostatnich dekadach w Europie nastąpił gwałtowny wzrost znaczenia ruchów (skrajnie) prawicowych, do których można zaliczyć także Konfederację. W artykule porównano dyskurs tej stosunkowo nowej formacji politycznej z retoryką polityki strachu (Wodak, 2021).  

EN

The article combines methods pertaining to Rhetorical Genre Studies and Discourse-Historical Approach in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of Krzysztof Bosak’s nomination acceptance speech which he delivered during the 2020 Confederation presidential primaries. The discussed genre of political speech is rarely realized in European contexts. Given various differences between the American and the Polish political systems, Bosak did not follow every pattern of the standard variant of the genre. Rather his speech appears to be more similar to a nomination acceptance speech of a third-party candidate. Overall, Bosak emerged as the leader of a divided and heterogeneous party, which was not given much attention by mainstream media. The paper investigates how these factors contributed to the structure and content of the speech. Moreover, recent decades have seen a rapid rise in significance of (far) right-wing movements in Europe. As Confederation is a relatively new political formation, there is a gap in research regarding the properties of its discourse. Thus, the present paper compares the discourse of the coalition with practices of politics of fear (Wodak, 2021).

Keywords

PL

Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość; podejście dyskursywno-historyczne; retoryczne studia nad gatunkami; dyskurs prawicy; przemówienie akceptacyjne

EN

Confederation Liberty and Independence; discourse-historical approach; rhetorical genre studies; right-wing discourse; nomination acceptance speech

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
• Journal: Res Rhetorica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 21-42

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Marcin Kosman

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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Identifiers

DOI

10.29107/rr2022.2.2

Biblioteka Nauki

2232091