Talking Donald Trump: A Sociolinguistic Study Of Style, Metadiscourse, And Political Identity (routledge Focus On Linguistics)

__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 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. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of illustrations 8 1 Language and political identity 10 Analyzing presidential language 10 Origin of the book 12 A discourse analytic approach 18 What this book is (not) about 26 2 Trump’s idiolect: discourse-marking devices 30 Introduction 30 Perspectives on style and identity 31 Selection of data 34 Analysis of discourse markers 34 Turn-initial “well” 36 “By the way” 41 “Believe me” 45 Epistrophic punctuation 48 Conclusion 50 3 Trump’s idiolect: interactional devices 52 Introduction 52 Interruption as a means of power and control 52 Constructed dialogue in a monologic context 57 Constructed dialogue in a dialogic context 63 Co-speech gesture in interaction 67 Conclusion 71 4 Parodies of Trump as metadiscourse 73 Why metadiscourse? 73 Parody as metadiscourse 76 The Saturday Night Live parodies 77 Hammond-as-Trump 78 Killam-as-Trump 81 Baldwin-as-Trump 85 Other popular parodies of Donald Trump 91 Conclusion 92 5 The sociolinguistic co-construction of political identity 94 Where are we now? 94 Sociolinguistic style and political identity 95 The social and linguistic effects of political parody 97 Looking toward the future 98 References 100 Index 112 "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 analyzing 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 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."--Provided by publisher 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. Language and political identity -- Trump's idiolect: Discourse marking devices -- Parodies of Trump as metadiscourse -- The sociolinguistic co-construction of political identity