Talking Donald Trump - A Sociolinguistic Study of Style, Metadiscourse, Political Identity

Talking Donald Trump examines the language of Donald Trump's presidential campaign from the perspective of sociocultural linguistics. This book offers an insight into the many stages of Trump's political career, from his initial campaign for the Republican nomination, up to his presidency. Drawing from speeches, debates, and interviews, as well as parodies and public reactions to his language, Sclafani explores how Trump's language has produced such polarized reactions among the electorate. In analysing the linguistic construction of Donald Trump's political identity, Sclafani's incisive study sheds light on the discursive construction of political identity and the conflicting language ideologies associated with the discourse of leadership in modern US society. Talking Donald Trump provides a crucial contemporary example of the interaction between sociolinguistics and political science, and is key reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of sociolinguistics, language and politics, communication studies and rhetoric.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Language and political identity

Chapter 2 Trump's idiolect: discourse-marking devices

Chapter 3 Trump's idiolect: interactional devices

Chapter 4 Parodies of Trump as metadiscourse

Chapter 5 The sociolinguistic co-construction of political identity

About the author

Jennifer Sclafani is Associate Teaching Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA. She has also been on the faculty at Hellenic American University in Athens, Greece, since 2009.

Summary

Talking Donald Trump examines the language of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign from the perspective of sociocultural linguistics. This book offers an insight into the many stages of Trump's political career, from his initial campaign for the Republican nomination, up to his presidency. Drawing from speeches, debates, and interviews, as well

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Sclafani, Jennifer (Georgetown University Sclafani
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367735951
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73595-1
• No. of pages: 106
• Series: Routledge Focus on Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; USA, Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, United States of America, USA, Elections & referenda, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Elections and referenda / suffrage