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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:33:19
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language in the Trump Era: McIntosh, Mendoza-Denton (eds.)

 


Title: Language in the Trump Era 
Subtitle: Scandals and Emergencies 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-trump-era-scandals-and-emergencies?format=HB 


Editor: Janet McIntosh
Editor: Norma Mendoza-Denton

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108841146 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 79.99
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Abstract:

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 Incoherence James Slotta; 3. “Get 'Em Out!”: The
Meaning of Ejecting Protestors Jack Sidnell; 4. Crybabies and Snowflakes Janet
McIntosh; Part II. Performance and Falsehood: 5. Part II Introduction: The
Show Must Go On: Hyperbole and Falsehood in Trump's Performance Norma
Mendoza-Denton; 6. Trump's Comedic Gestures as Political Weapon Donna M.
Goldstein, Kira Hall, and Matthew Bruce Ingram; 7. 45 as a Bullshit Artist:
Straining for Charisma Marco Jacquemet; 8. Plausible Deniability Adam Hodges;
Part III. The Interactive Making of the Trumpian World: 9. Part III
Introduction: Collusion: On Playing Along with the President Janet McIntosh;
10. Banter, Male Bonding, and the Language of Donald Trump Deborah Cameron;
11. On Social Routines and That Access Hollywood Bus Bruce Mannheim; 12.
'Cocked and Loaded': Trump and the Gendered Discourse of National Security
Carol Cohn; 13. Evaluator in Chief Brion van Over; 14. Fake Alignments Sylvia
Sierra and Natasha Shrikant; Part IV. Language, White Nationalism, and
International Responses to Trump: 15. Part IV Introduction: Language and
Trump's White Nationalist Strongman Politics Janet McIntosh; 16. 'Perfect
English' and White Supremacy H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman; 17. 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; 18. We Latin Americans Know a Messianic Autocrat When We See
One Norma Mendoza-Denton; 19. Rejoinders from the Shithole Quentin Williams;
20. Muslim Enemies, Rich Arab Friends Aomar Boum.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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