1st Edition
Talking Donald Trump A Sociolinguistic Study of Style, Metadiscourse, and Political Identity
By Jennifer Sclafani
Copyright 2018
114 Pages
by
Routledge
114 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
114 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
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
Biography
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.
