COMMUNICATION STYLES OF POLITICIANS
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adiunkt w Instytucie Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Publication date: 2020-01-23
Studia Politologiczne 2012;25
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Political communication as a phenomenon and an external process interrelates in
a particular manner with an internal world of an individual, which brings a final
result in a form of particular behaviours and practical actions. The magic of a word
has always been accompanying politicians. Since the goal of each authority is to
win recognition and exact obedience among the governed, aiming at effectiveness
of communication can be deemed a permanent aim on the political market.
A politician’s communication style is influenced by two fundamental forms of
communication process: verbal and non-verbal, which coincide with each other
and function as elements of communication process. Politicians can be classified
in terms of a degree to which they follow ideological or pragmatic justification
in their actions. Such a distinction is regarded as continuum. Fully ideological
politicians, who give scant attention to practical arguments, do not exist. There
are no absolutely pragmatic politicians who would be completely indifferent to
ideological arguments, either. This distinction results from the size of ideology’s
role in a politician’s behaviour and the degree to which his behaviour is influenced
by ideological arguments or pragmatic effectiveness. These two opposing manners
of mental formulation of reality can be expressed in politicians’ communication
styles which correspond to these manners. The type of raised issues and the way
of constructing arguments will be different, so as the language expression and the
degree of openness in expressing one’s own motives and intentions.