Fallacies Arguments in Political Discourse

Abstract

This research focuses on the subject of Fallacy in argumentation as one of the discourse mechanisms which speaker using it in order to obtain his objective. The political discourse as well depends on some arguments including Fallacy in order to reach its audiences. Fallacy is representing the negative side of using arguments, for the reason that it can influence audiences due to its conviction function. This research is selected those fallacies inside two discourse samples in this research, then tried to find out the comparison between them. The discourses are chosen during election campaign as one of the most interesting topics to analysis for this reason the research approaches TV interview which is containing the most effective messages in the election campaign. In this research, which relies on descriptive theory-statistical analysis (analysis Statistic), it appears that Fallacy is used as an argumentative mechanism and the discourse (New Generation) has the highest rate of use, while the discourse (KDP) used the most types of Fallacy.