Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-Historical Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781032263687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 88 str.

Massimiliano Demata

Opis

This book introduces an innovative critical analysis of borders in contemporary political discourse, using examples from the Trump presidency and early stages of the Biden presidency to explore how borders are used as mechanisms of power to invoke different notions of national identity.

O autorze

Massimiliano Demata is Associate Professor of English at the University of Turin. He was a Fulbright scholar in Yale (1999) and Indiana University (2014) and has held Visiting Professorships at Saarland University (2020), Sciences Po Lyon (2021), and OTH Regensburg (2022). He is the co-editor of the Journal of Language and Discrimination and has published on populist discourse, Trump’s rhetoric, metaphors of the nation and social media discourse.