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Language in the Trump era : scandals and emergencies

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

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Description

xix, 301 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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 alarmed people around the world, while exciting his fan-base with his unprecedented rhetorical style, shock-tweeting, and weaponized words. Using many detailed examples, this fascinating and highly topical book reveals how Trump's rallying cries, boasts, accusations, and mockery enlist many of his supporters into his alternate reality. From Trump's relationship to the truth, to his use of gesture, to the anti-immigrant tenor of his language, it illuminates the less obvious mechanisms by which language in the Trump era has widened divisions along lines of class, gender, race, international relations, and even the sense of truth itself"--

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 21-3532

ISBN

9781108841146
1108841147
9781108745031
1108745032

LCCN

2020013351

OCLC

1150961801

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY. BASED ON 2017 CONFERENCE.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

McIntosh, Janet, 1969- editor.

Mendoza-Denton, Norma, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Language in the Trump era Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108887410 (DLC) 2020013352

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3532

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