From an abundance of intensifiers to frequent repetition and parallelisms, Donald Trump’s idiolect is highly distinctive from that of other politicians and previous Presidents of the United States. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, this book identifies the characteristic features of Trump’s language and argues that his speech style, often sensationalized by the media, differs from the usual political rhetoric on more levels than is immediately apparent. Chapters examine Trump’s tweets, inaugural address, political speeches, interviews, and presidential debates, revealing populist language traits that establish his idiolect as a direct reflection of changing social and political norms. The authors scrutinize Trump’s conspicuous use of nicknames, the definite article, and conceptual metaphors as strategies of othering and antagonising his opponents. They further shed light on Trump’s fake news agenda and his mutation of the conventional political apology which are strategically implemented for a political purpose. Drawing on methods from corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, and critical discourse analysis, this book provides a multifaceted investigation of Trump’s language use and addresses essential questions about Trump as a political phenomenon.

After 1945, publishing conditions for German-language writers of Jewish origin on both the East and West German literary scenes were governed alongside economic factors by specific sociopolitical parameters and by the culture of remembrance. For many of these writers, activities in the literary world remained rooted in key personal experiences during National Socialist rule. Using the example of two writers, Jean Amery and Fred Wander, this study explores the discourses of historical remembrance and their impact on conditions for the publication and reception of literary works. The study focuses on these two writers philosophy of poetics, which were based on Jewish remembrance, and on the ways Amery and Wander formulated their own political claims for remembrance."

Der Sammelband bietet einen interdisziplinaren UEberblick uber die Darstellung von Geschwisterbeziehungen und die Verwendung geschwisterbezogener Termini innerhalb abendlandischer sowie antiker nahoestlicher Kulturtraditionen. Zum einen eroertern die Autoren spezifische Darstellungsformen, Pramissen und Funktionen exemplarischer Geschwisterpaare in Literatur, Bildender Kunst, Musik, Philosophie und historischer, gesellschaftspolitischer sowie religioeser Tradition. Zum anderen befassen sie sich mit den jeweiligen metaphorischen Rezeptionen und Adaptionen geschwisterlicher Termini, Motive und Zuschreibungen.

From an abundance of intensifiers to frequent repetition and parallelisms, Donald Trump’s idiolect is highly distinctive from that of other politicians and previous Presidents of the United States. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, this book identifies the characteristic features of Trump’s language and argues that his speech style, often sensationalized by the media, differs from the usual political rhetoric on more levels than is immediately apparent. Chapters examine Trump’s tweets, inaugural address, political speeches, interviews, and presidential debates, revealing populist language traits that establish his idiolect as a direct reflection of changing social and political norms. The authors scrutinize Trump’s conspicuous use of nicknames, the definite article, and conceptual metaphors as strategies of othering and antagonising his opponents. They further shed light on Trump’s fake news agenda and his mutation of the conventional political apology which are strategically implemented for a political purpose. Drawing on methods from corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, and critical discourse analysis, this book provides a multifaceted investigation of Trump’s language use and addresses essential questions about Trump as a political phenomenon.

"Portraits in Series: A Century of Photographs" takes the long view on the photographic portrait. Reaching back to photography's beginnings in the daguerreotype and the talbotype, it looks at the conventions and requirements of Victorian portrait photography, and tracks the genre's evolution right up to the digital present. A selection of works from 40 international contemporary portrait photographers is presented here, among them Diane Arbus, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Roni Horn, Theodor and Oscar Hofmeister, Peter Keetman, Helmar Lerski, Annie Leibovitz, Michael Najjar, Nicholas Nixon, Heinrich Riebesehl, Judith Joy Ross, Thomas Ruff, August Sander, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol. Each of these photographers and artists has almost reinvented the portrait for the needs of a particular historical moment, eliciting vast historical and cultural implications from that seemingly most obvious of subjects, the human body.