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Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trumpâ€™s Language: From 'Fake News' to 'Tremendous Success'

Edited by Dr Ulrike Schneider, Edited by Dr Matthias Eitelmann

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From an abundance of intensifiers to frequent repetition and parallelisms, Donald Trumpâ€™s idiolect is highly distinctive from that of other politicians and previous Presidents of the United States. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, this book identifies the characteristic features of Trumpâ€™s language and argues that his speech style, often sensationalized by the media, differs from the usual political rhetoric on more levels than is immediately apparent. Chapters examine Trumpâ€™s tweets, inaugural address, political speeches, interviews, and presidential debates, revealing populist language traits that establish his idiolect as a direct reflection of changing social and political norms. The authors scrutinize Trumpâ€™s conspicuous use of nicknames, the definite article, and conceptual metaphors as strategies of othering and antagonising his opponents. They further shed light on Trumpâ€™s fake news agenda and his mutation of the conventional political apology which are strategically implemented for a political purpose. Drawing on methods from corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, and critical discourse analysis, this book provides a multifaceted investigation of Trumpâ€™s language use and addresses essential questions about Trump as a political phenomenon.