ABSTRACT

Recursively in history, emotions such as social anger, moral satiety, distrust of the elite and the Establishment, among others, have all contributed to politicians’ encouragement and exploitation of a rather emotionally charged discourse (Block, E., and R. Negrine. 2017. “The Populist Communication Style: Toward a Critical Framework.” International Journal of Communication 11: 178–197). In their self-imposed capacity as mouthpiece for 'the People', populist leaders have successfully given vent to the expression of some of these emotions. The fact that emotion permeates all levels of linguistic description (Alba-Juez, L., and G. Thompson. 2014. “The Many Faces and Phases of Evaluation.” In Evaluation in Context, edited by L. Alba-Juez, and G. Thompson, 3–23. Amsterdam, PA: John Benjamins, 10–11) makes its examination a fascinating enterprise. In this paper, we discuss the role played by emotion in the production of populist discourse; to this end, we examine a very well-known example of populist rhetoric, i.e. Donald Trump, under the lens of Appraisal Theory (Martin, J. R., and P. R. R. White. 2005. The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; Bednarek, M. 2008. Emotion Talk Across Corpora. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). In particular, we employ a refined model of the affect subsystem (i.e. Benítez-Castro, M. Á., and E. Hidalgo-Tenorio. 2019. “Rethinking Martin and White’s Affect Taxonomy: A Psychologically-Inspired Approach to the Linguistic Expression of Emotion.” In Emotion in Discourse, edited by L. Mackenzie, and L. Alba-Juez, 301–332. Amsterdam: John Benjamins) to analyse seven speeches delivered by the US President in the last four years. Our study helps uncover a set of strategies and patterns showing how this unconventional politician’s emotion-driven language manages to develop a more inclusive in-group identity uniting the members of an angry, scared, frustrated and unsure audience.

摘要

在历史上，诸如社会愤怒、道德饱足感、对精英和当权派的不信任等情绪递归地促成了政客们鼓励和利用相当情绪化的话语（Block, E., and R. Negrine. 2017.“民粹主义传播风格：迈向批判性框架。”国际传播杂志11：178-197）。作为“人民”的代言人，民粹主义领导人以自我强加的身份成功地发泄了其中一些情绪的表达。情感渗透到语言描述的各个层面这一事实（Alba-Juez, L. 和 G. Thompson。2014。“评估的许多面孔和阶段。”在上下文评估中，由 L. Alba-Juez 和 G. Thompson 编辑，3-23。宾夕法尼亚州阿姆斯特丹：John Benjamins, 10-11) 使其考试成为一项引人入胜的事业。在本文中，我们讨论了情感在民粹主义话语生产中所起的作用；为此，我们在评估理论（Martin, JR, and PRR White. 2005. The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan ; Bednarek, M. 2008。跨语料库的情感对话。贝辛斯托克：Palgrave Macmillan）。特别是，我们采用了一个改进的影响模型子系统（即 Benítez-Castro、M. Á. 和 E. Hidalgo-Tenorio。2019 年。“重新思考 Martin 和 White 的情感分类：一种受心理启发的情感语言表达方法。”在Emotion in Discourse中，由 L 编辑. Mackenzie 和 L. Alba-Juez, 301–332. Amsterdam: John Benjamins）分析美国总统在过去四年中发表的七次演讲。我们的研究有助于揭示一套策略和模式，展示这位非传统政治家的情感驱动语言如何设法发展出一种更具包容性的群体内身份，将愤怒、害怕、沮丧和不确定的观众团结起来。