Political Passion. A contribution to the study of pathos in political speech: The case of Kirc hner Argentina , 2003 - 2010

DAGATTI, MARIANO

Saarbrücken

Conferencia; International Conference 2013 - Rhetoric in Europe; 2013

Universität des Saarlandes

This paper is the result of an ongoing doctoral research about public image and passion in political speech of former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner. The overall objective is to demonstrate the relevance of emotions in shaping new political subjectivities in contemporary societies. It proceeds on the assumption that all rhetorical persuasive speech, including political speech, needs to convince and to affect its audience, since the intellectual dimension is not enough to trigger action. Any political discourse, in this sense, constitutes a fundamental aspect of the construction of political subjectivities bringing into play emotions and reasons.