Trump typhoon: A rhetorical analysis of the Donald's Twitter feed

Anneliese Watt; Caroline Carvill; R. House; J. Livingston; J. M. Williams

DOI:10.1109/IPCC.2017.8013976

Corpus ID: 19755722

Trump typhoon: A rhetorical analysis of the Donald's Twitter feed

@article{Watt2017TrumpTA,
  title={Trump typhoon: A rhetorical analysis of the Donald's Twitter feed},
  author={Anneliese Watt and Caroline Carvill and R. House and J. Livingston and J. M. Williams},
  journal={2017 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)},
  year={2017},
  pages={1-7}
}

Anneliese Watt, Caroline Carvill, +2 authors J. M. Williams

Published 2017

Sociology, Computer Science

2017 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)

Tweets are Donald Trump's quickest and most frequently employed way to send shockwaves. Tweets allow the user to respond quickly to the Kairos of developing situations—an advantage to the medium, but perhaps also a disadvantage, as Trump's 3am and 4am tweets tend to show. In this paper, we apply the three classical modes of rhetoric—forensic/judicial, deliberative, and epideictic/ceremonial rhetoric—to see how the modes manifest in Donald Trump's tweets as a presidential candidate, as President… CONTINUE READING

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