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50 ŠOLSKO POLJE LETNIK XX ŠTEVILKA 5/63. Topos of Numbers4. Topos of History5. Topos of Authority6. Topos of Threat7. Topos of Definition8. Topos of Justice9. Topos of UrgencyIn The Discourse of Politics in Action we can also find topos of challenge,topos of the actual costs of enlargement (of EU), topos of belonging, andtopos of ‘constructing a hero’. Here the analyses of typical content-relatedargument schemes (as found in discourse) are not just carried out »againstthe background of the list of topoi«, but some parts of discourse »gain thestatus of topoi« (topos of the actual costs ...). So, as far as the (ontic) statusof topoi is concerned, we got a bit further: there isn’t just a list of topoi thatcan serve as the background (for the analysis), more topoi can be addedto the list. And, presumably, if topoi can be added to the list, they can probablyalso be deleted from the list. Unfortunatelly, in the publications I amtalking about, we get no epistemological or methodological criteria as tohow this is done, i.e. why, when and how certain topoi can be added to thelist, or why, when and how they can be taken off the list 4 .The most puzzling (and, for the very same reason, illuminating) list oftopoi can be found in Krzyzanowski (2009: 103). In his article we get the»list of the topoi identified in the respective corpora« (the national andthe European one - IŽŽ). Here they are:Topoi in the national corpus1. Topos of national uniqueness2. Topos of definition of the national role3. Topos of national history4. Topos of East and West5. Topos of past and future6. Modernisation topos