Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes:America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked

A populist president in campaign: Donald Trump, or the management of the Covid-19 crisis

“…On the methodological level, we operate within the field of discourse and argumentation analysis, which provide a series of valuable resources for studying the phenomenon of populism, the role of ethos-the image of self that is created/reinforced in the discourse, as developed by Amossy (2010), enunciative subjectivity (Kerbrat-Orecchioni 2002[1980), the classification of discursive tools of legitimation (van Leeuwen 2007, Charaudeau 2005, Beetham 2013). These analytical tools have been enriched by American studies of political discourse (Benoit 2007, Savage 2011, such as analyses of Trump's speech (Bonikowski 2019, Sabato et al 2017, Mercieca 2020, as well as studies of the American national doxa on which the leader builds his strategy of legitimation (see among others Bennett 2015, Kohut & Stokes 2006, Pyszczynski 2008, Rosenstiel 2006).…”