A critical discourse analysis of ethnicity in Donald Trump's tweets

Joint Authors

Mukif, Razzaq Nayif
Hasan, Isra Ismail Husayn

Source

Journal of Human Sciences

Issue

Vol. 27, Issue 4 (31 Dec. 2020)43 p.

Publisher

University of Babylon College of Education for Human Sciences

Publication Date

2020-12-31

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

43

Main Subjects

Literature

Topics

Abstract EN

This study aims to identify the linguistic features and ethnic-relations used and to reveal hidden ideologies in Trump's tweets.

To do so, the researcher chooses 30 tweets from Trump's official page.

The researcher establishes a model based which are the Fairclough's dimensional model(linguistic featuers) (1993), Van Dijk's ideological discourse analysis(1995b) and VanDijk's ideological square(1998)to analyze the sample.

The researcher investigates the following two hypotheses: 1.

Donald Trump tweets present power any racial superiority in his Tweets.

2.

Donald Trump tweets does not present and racial superiority in his Twitter Also, the researcher answers the two research questions: 1.

What are the linguistic features and ethnic relation used in the tweets written by Donald Trump in his official Twitter? 2.

What is the ideology and ethnic-relations illustrated in the tweets made by Donald Trump in his official Twitter?

American Psychological Association (APA)

Hasan, Isra Ismail Husayn& Mukif, Razzaq Nayif. 2020. A critical discourse analysis of ethnicity in Donald Trump's tweets. Journal of Human Sciences،Vol. 27, no. 4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1086313

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Hasan, Isra Ismail Husayn& Mukif, Razzaq Nayif. A critical discourse analysis of ethnicity in Donald Trump's tweets. Journal of Human Sciences Vol. 27, no. 4 (Dec. 2020).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1086313

American Medical Association (AMA)

Hasan, Isra Ismail Husayn& Mukif, Razzaq Nayif. A critical discourse analysis of ethnicity in Donald Trump's tweets. Journal of Human Sciences. 2020. Vol. 27, no. 4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1086313

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-1086313