Language in the Trump era : scandals and emergencies / edited by Janet McIntosh, Norma Mendoza-Denton.

"Early in his campaign, Donald Trump boasted that "I know words. I have the best words," yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If the Trump era feels like a political crisis to many, it is also a linguistic one. Trump has repeatedly...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McIntosh, Janet, 1969- (Editor)
Mendoza-Denton, Norma (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Trump, Donald, > 1946- > Language.
Trump, Donald, > 1946-
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century.
Communication in politics > United States > History > 21st century.
Communication in politics.
Language and languages.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
United States.
2000-2099
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Ask the gays" : how to use language to fragment and redefine the public sphere / Norma Mendoza-Denton
  • The significance of Trump's incoherence / James Slotta
  • "Get 'em out!" : the meaning of ejecting protestors / Jack Sidnell
  • Crybabies and snowflakes / Janet McIntosh
  • The show must go on : hyperbole and falsehood in Trump's performance / Norma Mendoza-Denton
  • Trump's comedic gestures as political weapons / Donna M. Goldstein, Kira Hall, and Matthew Bruce Ingram
  • 45 as a bullshit artist : straining for charisma / Marco Jacquemet
  • Plausible deniability / Adam Hodges
  • Collusion : on playing along with the president / Janet McIntosh
  • Banter, male bonding, and the language of Donald Trump / Deborah Cameron
  • On social routines and that Access Hollywood bus / Bruce Mannheim
  • "Cocked and loaded" : Trump and the gendered discourse of national security / Carol Cohn
  • Evaluator in chief / Brion van Over
  • Fake alignments / Sylvia Sierra and Natasha Shrikant
  • Language and Trump's white nationalist strongman politics / Janet McIntosh
  • "Perfect English" and white supremacy / H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman
  • Making our nation fear the powerless / Otto Santa Ana, Marco Antonio Juárez, Magaly Reséndez, John Hernández, Oscar Gaytán, Kimberly Cerón, Celeste Gómez, and Roberto Solís
  • We Latin Americans know a messianic autocrat when we see one / Norma Mendoza-Denton
  • Rejoinders from the shithole / Quentin Williams
  • Muslim enemies, rich Arab friends / Aomar Boum.