Publications

Publication details [#64845]

Liu, Haitao and Yaqin Wang. 2018. Is Trump always rambling like a fourth-grade student? An analysis of stylistic features of Donald Trump’s political discourse during the 2016 election. Discourse & Society 29 (3) : 299–323.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

election manifesto | genre | language use | political speech | stylistics

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This inquiry assesses stylistic attributes of Donald Trump’s political discourse based on the development over time and the genre variation by using a comparison between Obama, Clinton and Trump.