Looting Leads to Shooting: A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis of President Trump's Argumentative Discourse on Floyd's Death

Autor/in	Alaghbary, Gibreel Sadeq
Titel	Looting Leads to Shooting: A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis of President Trump's Argumentative Discourse on Floyd's Death
Quelle	In: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 16 (2020) 4, S.1854-1868 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Alaghbary, Gibreel Sadeq)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-578X
Schlagwörter	Presidents; Fear; Persuasive Discourse; Justice; Police; Police Community Relationship; Credibility; Language Usage; Terrorism; Death; Law Enforcement; Discourse Analysis; Political Attitudes; Psychological Patterns; Social Environment; Context Effect; Deception; News Reporting; Pragmatics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? President; Präsident; Furcht; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Gerechtigkeit; Glaubwürdigkeit; Sprachgebrauch; Terrorismus; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Gesetzesvollzug; Diskursanalyse; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Soziales Umfeld; Täuschung; News report; Reportage; Pragmalinguistik
Abstract	This study aims at problematizing President Trump's argumentation in response to the protesters' demands for justice, racial equality and police reforms over the killing of George Floyd. In his first reaction, Trump used mild rhetoric that frustrated and galvanized the angry mobs. In response to escalating protests, Trump escalated his own rhetoric. Calling into question the character and credibility of the protesters, Trump labelled the protesters "thugs" and "terrorists", alluded to the deployment of the Military, and tweeted "when the looting starts, the shooting starts". Pragma-dialectical analysis of Trumps' response reveals that rational argumentation yields to derailed strategic maneuvering involving name-giving, ad baculum and ad hominem fallacies. Trump makes a dialectical shift from persuasive logic to fear arousing and threat making tactics in order to coercively hold up demonstrations and enforce compliance, and later shifts from persuasion to eristic discourse. He politicizes his response by accusing the media of fomenting hatred and anarchy, and by blaming the mayhem on his democratic rival, who is ridiculed and personally abused. These are irrelevant argumentative moves in the socio-political context as well as in the context of the persuasion discourse. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi B Blok, Yabanci Diller Egitimi Bolumu, Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Ankara 06800, Turkey. e-mail: jllsturkey@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jlls.org
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Update	2024/1/01