Populistic leader and his linguistic image and rhetoric of dominance on the ground of analysis of Paweł Kukiz’ statements presented in the sessions of the Sejm and in his Facebook posts. Political and linguistic perspective

The aim of this paper is characterizing one of the main populistic categories – the populistic leader. The problem was described from politological and linguistic point of view. The analyzed texts are Paweł Kukiz’ statements presented in the sessions of the Sejm (a lower chamber of the Polish parliament) and his Facebook posts. This paper presents the most important features which build the linguistic image of populistic leader. The authors claim that the image of populistic leader created in Paweł Kukiz’ texts is strictly combined with the dominance and its linguistic ways of expression, regarding the opposites to the people (citizens) and elites (political parties etc.). The cohesion of the described image of the populistic leader is created with the opposite we – they, which is ambiguous in the analyzed texts and enables Paweł Kukiz to construct different roles he plays in politics