No. 4 (31) October-December

Persuasive Texts as Objects of Linguistic Reflection

1. Editorial
2. Elegant Seduction: Remarks on Symbolic Refi nement of Products in Advertising
   Joanna Golonka
3. Anarchistic Rhetoric Against the War. About Emma Goldmann’s Speech of
   June 14, 1917 Against the Forced Conscription in the U.S.A.
   Manfred Kienpointner
4. “Making a Way out of No Way”. Martin Luther King’s Proverbial Rhetoric
   for Human Rights
   Wolfgang Mieder
5. One lies in German, if one refuses politely? An analysis of rejection letters
   to applicants in the light of the falsehood theory
   Joanna Szczęk
6. Can the judge become the defendant? Cicero’s First Oration Against
   Verresas as a Defense of the Senatorial Order – Analysis from the Point of
   View of the Mental Space Theory
   Justyna Rudnicka, Przemysław Staniewski