The hollow man

Donald Trump, populism, and post-truth politics

Bibliographic Data

ID6084166
AuthorsRobin Tolmach Lakoff (0000-0002-0781-2429)
Year2017
Volume16
Issue4
Pages595-606
Publication date2017-10-26
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.17022.lak
OpenAlexW2625217601
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited4

Donald J. Trump’s surprising victory in the 2016 American presidential election requires analysis: what brought it about, and what might it portend? This paper explores these and other questions: how have Trump’s victory and his communicative strategies compromised the culture’s notions of “truth” – via a continuum from “lie” through “post-truth,” “truthiness,” and “alternative facts” to “truth”? Is Trump – judging from his language and other communications – really a populist? And how are we to understand his many idiosyncrasies of discourse, as well as his supporters’ unwillingness to worry about them

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Presidential system · Sociology · Victory · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Law · Philosophy

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