Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies [Hardcover]

By examining Trump's verbal techniques, this book illuminates how he employs words to power his presidency whilst scandalizing the world.Trump has used words to fragment and scandalize the world. This accessible book offers a fascinating insight into Trump's presidency, by investigating and illuminating various distinctive features of his discourse. Using many real-life examples, it is an ideal introduction to the interplay of language and politics for non-specialists.Trump has used words to fragment and scandalize the world. This accessible book offers a fascinating insight into Trump's presidency, by investigating and illuminating various distinctive features of his discourse. Using many real-life examples, it is an ideal introduction to the interplay of language and politics for non-specialists.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.Introduction: A Linguistic Emergency Janet McIntosh; Part I. Dividing the American Public: 1. Part I Introduction: 'Ask the Gays': How to Use Language to Fragment and Redefine the Public Sphere Norma Mendoza-Denton; 2. The Significance of Trump's lS-