Semantic and Structural Aspects of Donald Trump’s Neologisms

Holubnycha, Liudmyla; Костікова, Ілона; Besarab, Tetiana; Moshtagh, Yevheniia S.; Lushchyk, Yuliia; Dolgusheva, Olga

doi:10.18662/po/11.2sup1/178

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“…Importantly, digitalization and the rise of SMTs are not the sole contributors to the creation of neo-emotions, though they may provide conditions that catalyze more or different forms and facilitate their spread. Aided by SMTs, charismatic leaders can proliferate and amplify certain neo-emotions (see Trump's use of “haterade,” Holubnycha et al 2020:48–49). Crises and disasters also appear to spur their emergence, as Albrecht (2019) documents the many varieties of grief, distress, and sadness connected with climate change and the sense of impending loss that have been developed since as far back as the 1940s.…”

Section: Situating Neo-emotions In Macro-level Change and Cultural Ev...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Neo-emotions: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda

Cottingham

2023

Emotion Review

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Emotion research that attends to the cultural dynamics of affective life remains underdeveloped. I outline an agenda for an understudied phenomenon that can orient emotion researchers to the situated, cultural practices of affective life: Neo-emotions. Neo-emotions, when situated within macro-level processes and cultural events, illustrate the constrained yet creative practices that social actors use to address the disconnect between one's emotional vocabulary and dynamic environment. As such, neo-emotions are analytically rich cultural practices that can be empirically explored through sociological, anthropological, historical, and psychological inquiry. I discuss a range of neo-emotions, including doomscrolling, eco-grief, and Black joy, their social antecedents (digitalization, disasters/crises, and social movements) and methodological implications for an interdisciplinary agenda.

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Section: Situating Neo-emotions In Macro-level Change and Cultural Ev...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Neo-emotions: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda

Cottingham

2023

Emotion Review

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“…Research on Trump's political style has identified unique neologisms discursively employed in his political communication (Holubnycha, Kostikova, Besarab, Moshtagh, Lushchyk and Dolgusheva, 2020), strong language, violent expressions and a high incidence of metaphoric dysphemistic expressions, especially in reference to the Covid-19 pandemic (Olimat, 2020), a high frequency of "first-person pronouns (I-talk)", "non-standard and low-complexity words" (Ahmadian, Azarshahi and Paulhus 2017), and an unusual frequency of repetition, intensifiers and metaphors in Trump's political discourse (Garcìa, 2018). Researchers have also examined the readability level of Trump's language and revealed interesting patterns.…”

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Ideological Manipulation in Twitter Communication: A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Donald Trump's Tweets

Alaghbary¹

2022

IJAES

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Donald Trump’s use of Twitter as a modality to defame opponents, antagonize media outlets and even glorify violence is an enduring legacy for political campaigns, presidential rhetoric and argumentative debates. This nontraditional use of social media as a political communication tool has invited Twitter’s fact-checking editorial decisions, alienated some of Trump’s supporters and attracted worldwide criticism. Using purposive sampling, the present paper employs the ten textual-conceptual functions of critical stylistics to analyze a dataset of Trump’s tweets on domestic and international political issues published between 2011 and 2020 and assembled from the monitor corpus Trump Twitter Archive. The critical stylistic analysis aims at uncovering Trump’s ideological outlook by identifying the extra layer of meaning in which the ideological evaluation is structured and exposing the way in which the resources of language are strategically deployed to influence and ideologically manipulate Trump’s followers’ experience of reality. Analysis reveals a network of lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic choices underlying Trump’s seemingly simple rhetoric. It signposts his ideological evaluation and constructs a world for his followers to desire, believe or fear. The study extends the application of critical stylistics to microblogging channels, with implications both for the linguistic make-up of political communication in Web 2.0 contexts and for the explanatory power of critical stylistics.

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