STRATEGIES OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN IL CARAGIALE'S JOURNALISTIC WORK

The journalistic work of the Romanian greatest playwright was generally over-evaluated by the literary critics who were focused to identify the literary merits of the respective texts. They ignored an analysis meant to be done with the instruments of rhetoric and argumentation. Undoubtedly, I.L. Caragiale was highly interested in the political life of his time, and therefore an applied research on the corpus of texts represented by his political articles must be welcomed. The present study focuses on the identification of the persuasive strategies that I.L. Caragiale uses to get the reader's attention, to keep him interested in reading his articles and eventually convince his reader of his own ideas or political convictions. It also aims to use the discourse analysis, as a qualitative method, in order to identify the discursive contextualization of the writer's political ideas. The findings of the research offer a clearer picture concerning the characteristics of the political discourse in a specific historical context, as provided by I.L. Caragiale's texts.