Abstract: Donald Trump’s speeches and messages are characterized by terms that are commonly referred to as “thick” or “emotive”, meaning that they are characterized by a tendency to be used to generate emotive reactions. This paper investigates how emotive meaning is related to emotions, and how it is generated or manipulated. Emotive meaning is analyzed as an evaluative conclusion that results from inferences triggered by the use of a term, which can be represented and assessed using argumentation schemes.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-10-06
Language: en
Type: article
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