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The purpose of this paper is to examine the discursive construction of persuasiveness in media language on the basis of the genre 'film review,' which is relatively rarely analysed. Thanks to a study of eighty reviews for three popular French comedies "Intouchables" (2011), "Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?" (2014) and "Le sens de la fête" (2017) several invariant persuasive traits of this kind of discourse can be described in the context of its demonstrative (epideictic) and deliberative (legislative) dimensions. These dimensions exploit the rhetorical parameters of movere and delectare related to the conative function of language combined with the phatic one. Since the use of the mentioned strategies stems from the need for film reviewers to attract and convince the addressee to see a film or not, they reflect some persuasive techniques of advertising discourse, which aim to influence one's will and decisions. Therefore, the paper elaborates on a set of discursive strategies of persuasion (DSP), leading to dynamise and dialogise the discourse in order to reinforce or weaken the addressee's attitude towards the presented film by means of evaluative lexis including colloquial expressions, superlatives, questions and appellative-directive forms. All these elements refer to shared values, connotation, presupposition, and the identification relationship in order to 'lock' the addressee in the discursive universe created by the addresser. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper deals with the discursive construction of persuasiveness in media language. Based on eighty reviews of two French comedies Intouchables (2011) and Qu’est-ce qu’on a fait au Bon Dieu ? (2014), different components of the genre ‘film review’ – relatively little explored until recently – are established in the light of two operations of metonymy exploring the rhetorical argument from community. As the operations mentioned contribute to influencing the addressees’ will and decisions, they perform the phatic function linked to the rhetoric principle of movere and delectare. Accordingly, it is important to notice that the persuasive strategies reflect some methods used in advertising discourse, especially with regard to indirect means of interpretation, values and emotions, which become starting points for the deliberative dimension of the film review. These parameters permit to reduce the infor-mation verification process by applying colloquial expressions, directive speech acts, collocative pronouns and generic quantifiers, since they stem from the trustworthiness relation connected with the peripheral route of persuasive influence.

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Film review as a rhetorical activity The paper discusses the discursive construction of persuasiveness in media language. Analysing the corpus consisting of eighty reviews of two French comedies “Intouchables” (2011) and “Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?” (2014), several invariant characteristics of the genre `film review' are established in the light of its deliberative dimension which consists in using various discursive strategies of persuasion submitted to the phatic function based on the principle of movere and delectare. Since the mentioned strategies assume that the discourse aims at influencing the addressees' will and decisions, they reflect some of the persuasive techniques used in advertising discourse, especially with regard to rhetorical means of interpretation, suggestion and evaluation such as colloquial expressions, questions, directive speech acts, collocative pronouns and generic quantifiers. Thus, the issues addressed in the study concern a set of parameters governing the attractiveness of the message in order to reinforce or weaken the recipient's attitude towards the presented object. These parameters stem from shared values and convictions exploring automatic mental triggers connected with the peripheral route of persuasive influence. Recenzja filmowa jako działanie retoryczne Celem analizy jest przedstawienie dyskursywnego konstruowania perswazyjności w języku mediów. Na bazie korpusu składającego się z osiemdziesięciu recenzji dwóch francuskich komedii „Nietykalnych” (2011) i „Za jakie grzechy, dobry Boże?” (2014) omówiono kilka inwariantnych cech gatunku „recenzji filmowej”, przedstawionych w świetle jej deliberatywności, polegającej na użyciu różnorakich dyskursywnych strategii perswazyjnych, zależnych od fatycznej funkcji języka, działającej w oparciu o reguły movere i delectare. Ponieważ we wspomnianych strategiach zakłada się, że celem dyskursu jest wpływanie na wolę i decyzje odbiorcy, odzwierciedlają one niektóre z perswazyjnych technik dyskursu reklamowego, w szczególności te, które związane są z retorycznymi środkami interpretacji, sugestii i wartościowania jak wyrażenia potoczne, pytania, akty dyrektywne, zaimki kolektywne oraz kwantyfikatory ogólne. Z tego powodu, kwestie omawiane w niniejszej pracy dotyczą środków zawiadujących atrakcyjnością komunikatu, służącej wzmocnieniu lub osłabieniu opinii odbiorcy względem prezentowanego obiektu. Środki te wywodzą się z wartości i przekonań uznanych za wspólne, wykorzystując przy tym automatyczne psychologiczne mechanizmy, związane z argumentacją peryferyjnego toru perswazji.

The present paper deals with the discursive construction of persuasiveness in media language. Based on eighty reviews of two French comedies Intouchables (2011) and Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? (2014), different components of the genre 'film review' - relatively little explored until recently - are established in the light of two operations of metonymy exploring the rhetorical argument from community. As the operations mentioned contribute to influencing the addressees' will and decisions, they perform the phatic function linked to the rhetoric principle of movere and delectare. Accordingly, it is important to notice that the persuasive strategies reflect some methods used in advertising discourse, especially with regard to indirect means of interpretation, values and emotions, which become starting points for the deliberative dimension of the film review. These parameters permit to reduce the information verification process by applying colloquial expressions, directive speech acts, collocative pronouns and generic quantifiers, since they stem from the trustworthiness relation connected with the peripheral route of persuasive influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the discursive construction of persuasiveness in media language. Analysing the corpus consisting of eighty reviews of two French comedies "Intouchables" (2011) and "Qu'estce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? (2014)", several invariant characteristics of the genre 'film review' are established in the light of its deliberative dimension which consists in using various discursive strategies of persuasion submitted to the phatic function based on the principle of movere and delectare. Since the mentioned strategies assume that the discourse aims at influencing the addressees' will and decisions, they reflect some of the persuasive techniques used in advertising discourse, especially with regard to rhetorical means of interpretation, suggestion and evaluation such as colloquial expressions, questions, directive speech acts, collocative pronouns and generic quantifiers. Thus, the issues addressed in the study concern a set of parameters governing the attractiveness of the message in order to reinforce or weaken the recipient's attitude towards the presented object. These parameters stem from shared values and convictions exploring automatic mental triggers connected with the peripheral route of persuasive influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]