POLITICAL DISCOURSE - A MEDIUM IN THE FIGHT FOR SOCIAL AND NATIONAL EMANCIPATION. THE KOGĂLNICEANU CASE.
RRSS 2022 No. 23 - Romanian Review of Social Sciences
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Authors:
• Mimi-Carmina COJOCARU -
Keywords: political discourse, political class, synchronism, manipulation, society
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Abstract:
Although political discourse is often characterized as manipulative, however, universal history and rhetoric records a series of speeches that have had the power to change the destiny of nations, having implications even on the destiny of the world.Romania was not an exception in this regard. If in the years after the Second World War and even in those after 1989, speeches that served the party propaganda were declaimed, on the Romanian political scene there were also orators whose interest was the national interest.The writer, historian, speaker and great politician, Mihail Kogălniceanu has assumed the role of reforming his country, contributing decisively to its modernization, by creating and adopting laws with impact on education, culture, social and economic life of the people.He understands, from the time of studies in Germany, that a state cannot be strong and master of his destiny, except through his citizens. Aware of their belonging, educated and with a civilized level of life, they will be able to actively involve in creating a country to represent them worldwide. That a higher political class is the exponent of a higher society.In other words, the political discourse is the expression of putting into practice the vision of the political man, his interests and relations with the society he represents. Through the ideas and reforming principles affirmed from the Parliament Tribune, Kogălniceanu remains a landmark for a whole Romanian political class.