Massimiliano Demata

Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA

A Discourse-Historical Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces an innovative critical analysis of borders in contemporary political discourse, using examples from the Trump presidency and early stages of the Biden presidency to explore how borders are used as mechanisms of power to invoke different notions of national identity.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Focus on Applied Linguistics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9781032263687
• ISBN-10: 1032263687
• Artikelnr.: 64360142

Autorenporträt

Massimiliano Demata is Associate Professor of English at the University of Turin. He was a Fulbright scholar in Yale (1999) and Indiana University (2014) and has held Visiting Professorships at Saarland University (2020), Sciences Po Lyon (2021), and OTH Regensburg (2022). He is the co-editor of the Journal of Language and Discrimination and has published on populist discourse, Trump's rhetoric, metaphors of the nation and social media discourse.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Borders, Nations and Security in the Age of Populism
Theoretical framework and methodology: the Discourse-Historical Approach
Borders and the Nation: Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion
From bordered to borderless - and back. Borders, populism and the politics
of security (and insecurity)
Chapter 2 The Trump Wall. The Discourse and the Aesthetics of Exclusion
The border wall: security and the nation
The Beautiful Wall. Borders and the Discourse of Real Estate
Branding Trump and the Trump Wall
Chapter 3 The Progressive Rhetoric of Borders
Democrats and "open borders"
From nation separation to family separation. Borders and the strength of
the "nation of immigrants"
The modern (and effective) border
Conclusions
References