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Introduction: From fake news to tremendous success / Matthias Eitelmann and Ulrike Schneider -- It's just words, folks. It's just words : Donald Trump's distinctive linguistic style / Jesse Egbert and Douglas Biber -- I know words, I have the best words : repetitions, parallelisms, and matters of (in)coherence / Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam and Gintarė Grigonytė -- A man who was just an incredible man, an incredible man : age factors and coherence in Donald Trump's spontaneous speech / Patricia Ronan and Gerold Schneider -- Very emotional, totally conservative, and somewhat all over the place : an analysis of intensifiers in Donald Trump's speech / Ulrike Stange -- Crooked Hillary, Lyin' Ted, and failing New York Times : nicknames in Donald Trump's tweets / Jukka Tyrkkö and Irina Frisk -- I'm doing great with the Hispanics. Nobody knows it : the distancing effect of Donald Trump's the plurals / Ulrike Schneider and Kristene K. McClure -- Either we WIN this election, or we are going to LOSE this country! : Trump's warlike competition metaphor / Anthony Koth -- Silence and Denial Trump's discourse on the environment / Marta Degani and Alexander Onysko -- Donald Trump's "fake news" agenda : a pragmatic account of rhetorical delegitimization / Christoph Schubert -- Sorry not sorry : political apology in the age of Trump / Jan David Hauck and Teruko Vida Mitsuhara -- Great movement vs. crooked opponents : is Donald Trump's language populist? / Ulrike Schneider and Matthias Eitelmann. "From short paratactic sentences to frequent repetition and parallelisms, Donald Trump's idiolect is highly distinctive from that of previous Presidents of the USA. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, this book identifies the characteristic features of Trump's language and argues that his speech style, often underestimated by the media, is strategically implemented as a persuasive device. The chapters examine Trump's tweets, inaugural address, political speeches, interviews, presidential debates and reality TV appearances, revealing populist language traits that establish his idiolect as a direct reflection of changing social and political norms. Also scrutinised is Trump's deviant use of nicknames, the definite article and conceptual metaphors as strategies of othering and antagonising his opponents, which is tailored to a specific political purpose. Drawing on techniques from corpus linguistics, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, this book provides a multifaceted investigation of Trump's language use and addresses essential questions about Trump as a political phenomenon"--
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