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"A great and beautiful wall"
Abstract
This paper focuses on Trump’s aggressive language on immigration. By analyzing a data set made of public speeches, interviews, and statements from Trump’s official website, the paper will look at how certain lexico-grammatical and intertextual choices in Trump’s representation of immigration display all the typical features of a populist agenda. Trump’s texts will be analyzed according to Wodak’s Discourse-Historical approach: Trump’s own “politics of fear” and language on immigration are evidence of the strong currency held by values associated with right-wing, ethno-nationalist populism, once the core ideological tenets only of certain fringe movements such as the Tea Party, but now firmly established in mainstream politics.
Abstract
This paper focuses on Trump’s aggressive language on immigration. By analyzing a data set made of public speeches, interviews, and statements from Trump’s official website, the paper will look at how certain lexico-grammatical and intertextual choices in Trump’s representation of immigration display all the typical features of a populist agenda. Trump’s texts will be analyzed according to Wodak’s Discourse-Historical approach: Trump’s own “politics of fear” and language on immigration are evidence of the strong currency held by values associated with right-wing, ethno-nationalist populism, once the core ideological tenets only of certain fringe movements such as the Tea Party, but now firmly established in mainstream politics.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
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Introduction
- Language aggression in public debates on immigration 1
- Thinking globally, acting locally 5
- Conditional support for territorial migrations in Serbian national discourse 33
- In transit 55
- "We mustn't fool ourselves" 79
- "A great and beautiful wall" 101
- Xenophobic Trumpeters 123
- Donald Trump supporters and the denial of racism 151
- Contributors to this issue 175
- Subject index 177
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
-
Introduction
- Language aggression in public debates on immigration 1
- Thinking globally, acting locally 5
- Conditional support for territorial migrations in Serbian national discourse 33
- In transit 55
- "We mustn't fool ourselves" 79
- "A great and beautiful wall" 101
- Xenophobic Trumpeters 123
- Donald Trump supporters and the denial of racism 151
- Contributors to this issue 175
- Subject index 177
