Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language

From 'Fake News' to 'Tremendous Success'

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

From an abundance of intensifiers to frequent repetition and parallelisms, Donald Trump’s idiolect is highly distinctive from that of other politicians and previous Presidents of the United States. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, this book identifies the characteristic features of Trump’s language and argues that his speech style, often sensationalized by the media, differs from the usual political rhetoric on more levels than is immediately apparent. Chapters examine Trump’s tweets, inaugural address, political speeches, interviews, and presidential debates, revealing populist language traits that establish his idiolect as a direct reflection of changing social and political norms. The authors scrutinize Trump’s conspicuous use of nicknames, the definite article, and conceptual metaphors as strategies of othering and antagonising his opponents. They further shed light on Trump’s fake news agenda and his mutation of the conventional political apology which are strategically implemented for a political purpose. Drawing on methods from corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, and critical discourse analysis, this book provides a multifaceted investigation of Trump’s language use and addresses essential questions about Trump as a political phenomenon.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-04-21
Mått:154 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350186309

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Mer om författaren

Ulrike Schneider is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Mainz, Germany.Matthias Eitelmann is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Mainz, Germany.

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A timely and most insightful book about the power of language in populist regimes.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: From Fake News to Tremendous Success, Matthias Eitelmann and Ulrike SchneiderPart I: Rhetoric & Repetition2. It’s Just Words, Folks. It’s Just Words: Donald Trump’s Distinctive Linguistic Style, Jesse Egbert and Douglas Biber3. I Know Words, I have the Best Words: Repetitions, Parallelisms, and Matters of (In)Coherence, Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam and Gintare Grigonyte4. A Man who was Just an Incredible Man, an Incredible Man: Age Factors and Coherence in Donald Trump’s Spontaneous Speech, Patricia Ronan and Gerold SchneiderPart II: Evaluation & Emotion 5. Very Emotional, Totally Conservative, and Somewhat All over the Place: An Analysis of Intensifiers in Donald Trump’s Speech, Ulrike Stange6. Crooked Hillary, Lyin’ Ted, and Failing New York Times: Nicknames in Donald Trump’s Tweets, Jukka Tyrkkö and Irina Frisk7. I’m Doing Great with the Hispanics. Nobody Knows it: The Distancing Effect of Donald Trump’s the-Plurals, Ulrike Schneider and Kristene K. McClure Part III: Discourse & Metaphor 8. Either we WIN this Election, or we are Going to LOSE this Country!: Trump’s WARLIKE COMPETITION Metaphor, Anthony Koth9. Silence and Denial Trump’s Discourse on the Environment, Marta Degani and Alexander Onysko10. Donald Trump’s “Fake News” Agenda: A Pragmatic Account of Rhetorical Delegitimization, Christoph Schubert11. Sorry Not Sorry: Political Apology in the Age of Trump, Jan David Hauck and Teruko Vida MitsuharaPart IV: Conclusion 12. Great Movement vs. Crooked Opponents: Is Donald Trump’s Language Populist?, Ulrike Schneider and Matthias Eitelmann List of ContributorsIndex

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