Demagogue for President
The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump Jennifer Mercieca
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22693316 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie A Martin (0000-0002-3873-7679, Southern Methodist University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 826-828 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/joc/jqab007 |
| OpenAlex | W3135387254 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Donald Trump had a rhetorical strategy in 2016, but that did not mean he was making an argument. This is the essential insight of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump, Jennifer Mercieca’s incisive yet exhaustive study of the political language of the nation’s 46th commander in chief as he first emerged onto the public stage. Over the course of 17 short chapters divided into three parts (“Trump and the Distrusting Electorate;” Trump and the Polarized Electorate;” and “Trump and the Frustrated Electorate;”) Mercieca sets out to answer the questions that vexed so many: How did Trump do it? How did Trump speak without any eloquence and still manage to persuade so many? In answering, Mercieca emphasizes his status as a demagogue, and explains how he used words to win over voters by both knowing better and claiming to know nothing at all. “Trump tried to have...
Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Epistemology · Genius · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical criticism · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |