Open Access“They’re killing us!” - Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tweets
Author(s) -
Shaalan Najem Abdullah Shammari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dialogos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2734-5424
pISSN - 1582-165X
DOI - 10.24818/dlg/2021/38/06
Subject(s) - critical discourse analysis , ideology , discourse analysis , sociology , politics , selection (genetic algorithm) , linguistics , field (mathematics) , civil discourse , epistemology , political science , law , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , mathematics , pure mathematics
This article focuses on the linguistic aspects of Trump’s political discourse, as reflected insome of his tweets targeted at specific countries, political groups and immigrants, posted onTwitter between 2015 and 2019. A qualitative research design, using a descriptive andinterpretative analysis, has been applied in this study, which is part of a broader researchon Trump’s discourse. The underlying theoretical framework is the one provided byNorman Fairclough's 3-dimensional model of discourse. The current study, thus, aims tocritically explore both the main linguistic features present in the corpus analysed and theideological aspects possibly associated with Trump’s selection of linguistic means. One ofthe underlying considerations in this research endeavour is that the ideological standpointis a particularly important one, since presidential discourses are typically molded by theirauthors’ status and authority. It is hoped that this work will make a contribution to thefield of Critical Discourse Analysis applied to political discourse, in the current period.