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Rhetoric as a leisure time activity for human personality development
KULANDOVÁ, Petra
This work deals with rhetoric as a leisure time activity for the development of human personality. The theoretical part characterises rhetoric, its subject matter and also deals with the history of rhetoric. It also describes the personality from the psychological point of view and its components, types of speakers or the speaker's image. It also deals with the possibilities in which personality can be developed. In the last chapter of the theoretical part, the thesis deals with free time, its historical development, free-time functions and also the personality development of man and related verbal and nonverbal communication. The empirical part of the thesis defines the methodology of the qualitative pilot research using the IPA method. The research aims to elicit from selected respondents whether and possibly how they were influenced by the study of rhetoric in their lives. The main research question was this: What life experience did the students have in terms of rhetoric? Interviews were conducted with four respondents who took part in a course of rhetoric and the interviews were analysed and thematic categories were created. Finally, the conclusion summarises and describes the results of the research.

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