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

ISBN-13: 9780367735951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 106 str.

Jennifer Sclafani

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.