Monstrous Discourse in the Donald Trump Campaign - Implications for National Discourse

This book argues that the use of the monster metaphor through media coverage and discourse surrounding Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign suggests characteristics of the monstrous in the public discourse, warranting concerns for the future of national discourse.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Our Metaphors, Our Selves
Chapter Two: The Monster Narrative
Chapter Three: The Media and the Monster
Chapter Four: The Buried Metaphor: Donald Trump's Construction of Monsters
Chapter Five: Monster (Metaphor) Mash
Chapter Six: When the Abyss Gazes Back
Bibliography
Appendices
About the Authors

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Debbie Jay Williams is professor of language and literature at Abilene Christian University.

Kalyn L. Prince is graduate student in the English PhD program at the University of Oklahoma.

Zusammenfassung

This book argues that the use of the monster metaphor through media coverage and discourse surrounding Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign suggests characteristics of the monstrous in the public discourse, warranting concerns for the future of national discourse.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kalyn L. Prince, Debbie Jay Williams, Debbie Jay Prince Williams, Williams Debbie Jay
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498547017
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4701-7
• Seiten: 168
• Serien: Lexington Studies in Political Communication; Lexington Studies in Political; Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Allgemeines, Lexika; USA, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Politics & government, Communication Studies, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc