Language in the Trump Era
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Scandals and Emergencies
Janet McIntosh / Norma Mendoza-Denton
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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.
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Introduction: A Linguistic Emergency
Part I. Dividing the American Public:
1. Part I Introduction: 'Ask the Gays': How to Use Language to Fragment and Redefine the Public Sphere
2. The Significance of Trump's Incoherence
3. “Get 'Em Out!”: The Meaning of Ejecting Protestors
4. Crybabies and Snowflakes
Part II. Performance and Falsehood:
5. Part II Introduction: The Show Must Go On: Hyperbole and Falsehood in Trump's Performance
6. Trump's Comedic Gestures as Political Weapon
7. 45 as a Bullshit Artist: Straining for Charisma
8. Plausible Deniability
Part III. The Interactive Making of the Trumpian World:
9. Part III Introduction: Collusion: On Playing Along with the President
10. Banter, Male Bonding, and the Language of Donald Trump
11. On Social Routines and That Access Hollywood Bus
12. 'Cocked and Loaded': Trump and the Gendered Discourse of National Security
13. Evaluator in Chief
14. Fake Alignments
Part IV. Language, White Nationalism, and International Responses to Trump:
15. Part IV Introduction: Language and Trump's White Nationalist Strongman Politics
16. 'Perfect English' and White Supremacy
17. Making our Nation Fear the Powerless
18. We Latin Americans Know a Messianic Autocrat When We See One
19. Rejoinders from the Shithole
20. Muslim Enemies, Rich Arab Friends