29.4909, FYI: Call for Chapters: Inquiries into Trump's Language
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Subject: 29.4909, FYI: Call for Chapters: Inquiries into Trump's Language
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:30:23
From: Ulrike Schneider [ulrike.schneider at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Call for Chapters: Inquiries into Trump's Language
Call for Chapters: Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language
Edited by Ulrike Schneider and Matthias Eitelmann (University of Mainz)
Ever since Donald Trump’s aspirations to run for president, there has been a
growing interest in fine-grained analyses of his language, which has been
taken to be crucially different from that of his predecessors and that of
other politicians. However, thorough descriptive analyses are still sparse,
and a lot of the studies circulating in the media tend to underestimate that
Trump’s way of communicating, characterised by repetition, parallelisms and
short paratactical sentences, is highly strategic, thus being tailored to a
political purpose. In order to shed light on Donald Trump’s distinctive
language use, the volume shows that ‘Trumpish’ with its display of populist
language traits in many respects is not simply a salient idiolect, but rather
a reflection of changing social norms.
The coherent edited volume, which will be published by Bloomsbury, provides a
multifaceted investigation of Donald Trump’s language use, addresses popular
(mis)conceptions about Donald Trump’s speech style from a linguistic
perspective and discusses to what extent his idiolect links to political and
cultural developments of the 20th and 21st centuries.
We seek contributions which provide an in-depth exploration of Trumpish,
addressing three main issues. First, we are interested in contributions which
identify the characteristic features of Trump’s idiolect in quantitative and
qualitative analyses, with a special focus on underlying systematicities and
strategies. Second, we welcome contributions which consider media-related
issues by investigating to what extent Trump’s language use is dependent on
the (social) medium he uses and how reminiscent Trump’s current idiolect is of
his language use as evidenced in former media appearances. Third, we seek
contributions which shed light on issues of political concern via linguistic
analyses.
In order to guarantee the coherence of the volume, a substantial introduction
will address characteristics of political language in general, introduce the
concept of an idiolect and discuss Donald Trump as the first social media
president, thus setting the scene for the contributions to follow. The
contributions should be written in a clearly accessible manner, each of them
zooming in on a particular language feature. We would welcome if chapters take
as a starting point a claim about Trump’s language circulating online or in
other media. In the conclusion, the editors evaluate all findings with a view
on the question of how populist his idiolect actually is and to what extent
his language use may have even changed the voice of politics.
The writing style we envision will keep technical matters and specialised
vocabulary to a minimum and, where necessary, explain it in simpler terms. In
this way, we intend to keep the quality of the content high while at the same
time making the text accessible to linguistic laypeople and thus a wider
audience. At the same time, the volume will be suitable for undergraduate
courses where text-books would usually be used.
Call for Chapters:
We plan to include the following chapters and corresponding content in the
book:
- An idiolect too simple to be presidential? An analysis of the complexity of
Donald Trump’s grammar.
- Repetitions, parallelisms and matters of (in)coherence: A discourse-analytic
investigation of Donald Trump’s rhetoric to be presidential?
- From George Washington to Donald Trump: A comparative analysis of US
Presidents’ inaugural addresses.
- An aging president: An analysis of hesitations in Donald Trump’s spoken
language.
- Speaking in extremes: An analysis of intensifier use in Donald Trump’s
language.
- A discourse of dualities: An analysis of the use of conceptual metaphors in
Donald Trump’s language.
- The grammar of racism: An analysis of non-standard uses of the definite
article in Donald Trump’s statements
- Crazy Megyn, Crooked Hillary and Lying Ted Cruz: An onomastic analysis of
Donald Trump’s nicknaming practices.
- The Apprentice elected: A Critical Discourse analysis of Donald Trump’s
language in reality TV vis-à-vis his presidential discourse
- Language as a brand: An analysis of Donald Trump’s stockphrases
- Flamboyant gesturing: A multimodal analysis of Donald Trump’s verbal and
non-verbal language
- The Art of Lying: A discourse-pragmatic analysis of Donald Trump’s treatment
of fake news.
Contributors can select data best suited for their contribution. We would
particularly welcome analyses of presidential debates, political speeches, TV
interviews, reality TV appearances and tweets.
If you are interested in contributing to the volume, please contact the volume
editors with an expression of interest by December 15:
ulrike.schneider at uni-mainz.de and eitelman at uni-mainz.de. For our final
decisions on contributors, we would then ask you to submit a 300-word abstract
sketching the contents of your chapter and listing the data you wish to
analyse by December 31, 2018.
Important Dates
- Expression of interest to volume editors: 15 December 2018
- Submission of abstracts to volume editors: 31 December 2018
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: 7 January 2019
- First draft due 30 June 2019
- Peer-review and revision: 1 July 2019 – 31 December 2019
Please note that we have a tight schedule as the publication date is set to be
before the next presidential election in November 2020.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
Clinical Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Computational Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
General Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Ling & Literature
Morphology
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
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