Trump, the Wall and the Spanish Language

Stavans, Ilán

doi:10.2979/chiricu.1.2.27

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“…Trump's emphasis on the importance of speaking English to conceptualisations of “true” Americanness thus harks back to past nativist movements such as the Official English language movement (Tatalovich, 2015). An emphasis of the importance of such ethnic traits was also evidence that Trump was appealing to voters who believed in the importance of living in a predominately Anglophone nation (Stavans, 2017).…”

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What it means to be a “true American”: Ethnonationalism and voting in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Thompson

2020

Nations and Nationalism

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A number of important factors predicted white people vote choice in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including voters' economic assessments, sexist attitudes, racial resentment, and status threat. In this paper, I establish that ethnonationalism—a set of beliefs concerning what it means to be a “true” American—was also a significant factor in the estimations of White Americans when casting their vote for president in 2016. Data from a nationally representative sample of White Americans show that ethnonationalism was a robust predictor of vote choice for Trump even after controlling for predictors known to shape vote choice, including economic assessments, sexist attitudes, racial resentment, status threat, and sociodemographic indicators. These results indicate that ethnonationalism, although correlated with some of these factors, operated primarily as an independent factor that shaped White vote choice. The findings have important implications concerning the electoral activation of White majorities concerned about the perceived threat that demographic change poses to American national identity.

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What it means to be a “true American”: Ethnonationalism and voting in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Thompson

2020

Nations and Nationalism

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“…In the United States, the policies of President Trump pursue a disdain for languages and cultures outside of the perceived American monolingual norm, evidenced, for instance, by the removal of Spanish language pages from http://WhiteHouse.gov (Bowden, ; Ordoñez, ). As Stavans () indicates, Trump “appears to be allergic to foreign languages.” In his social media contributions, he “constructs the image of the homeland being threatened by an evil, yet unspecified ‘other’ that needs to be prevented from invading ‘our country’” (Kreis, , p. 613). These anti‐‘other’ discourses had immediate societal consequences, with people feeling emboldened to tell foreign students to stop talking their “oriental” language (Richards, ).…”

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Brexit as Linguistic Symptom of Britain Retreating into its Shell? Brexit‐Induced Politicization of Language Learning

Lanvers

Doughty

Thompson

2018

The Modern Language Journal

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Debates about the future of UK language learning in the context of Brexit intensified as soon as the referendum outcome was announced. This politicization of language learning, evidenced recently also in the United States and France, falls upon an already difficult context of the United Kingdom in a ‘language learning crisis,’ and an increasing social segregation between those who learn languages, and those who do not. In the Brexit‐induced politicization of language learning, some suggest that the United Kingdom's unwillingness to learn languages is indexical of Europhobia, while others contend that the ‘global English’ phenomenon is the root cause. We examine the evidence for these rationales. Our data analysis uses van Dijk's methods of macrostructure Critical Discourse Analysis, to examine 33 publicly available texts on the topic of Brexit and language learning in the UK that appeared in the immediate aftermath of the referendum (June–November 2016). The analysis reveals how different stakeholders frame language learning as a habitus associated with social markers, and thus either reinforce patterns of the social divide in language learning, or challenge these. The conclusion proposes avenues of politicizing language learning that might foster rather than hinder uptake in those currently disengaged from language learning.

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Who Are You, Donald J. Trump?

Banai

2023

Springer Studies on Populism, Identity Politics and Social Justice

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Trump, the Wall and the Spanish Language

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What it means to be a “true American”: Ethnonationalism and voting in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

What it means to be a “true American”: Ethnonationalism and voting in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Brexit as Linguistic Symptom of Britain Retreating into its Shell? Brexit‐Induced Politicization of Language Learning

Who Are You, Donald J. Trump?

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