Language Of Othering: A Cda Of Right-Wing Discourse On Migration In The USA
Abstract
This paper explores the discrimination and persuasion in Donald J. Trump's discourse on migration in the USA from 2015 to 2025. The analysis is grounded on Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) of Reisigl and Wodak and Aristotle’s rhetoric. This study aims to examine how the discrimination in Trump’s discourse is systematically accounted for under the use of the DHA, and how Trump persuaded the audience to align with his anti-immigration speech. The results show that Trump’s discourse on migration was constructed to create a negative other representation of dangerous, threatening others, which attacks both legal and illegal immigrants. Trump referred to immigrants negatively by using selected qualities and trials to attack them, presents himself as the truthful savior, and collectively constructs immigrants as a threat using several Topoi. His speech relies on logos as the main strategy for persuasion, which represents how his discourse was built on employing reasons and facts, followed by appealing to emotions of fear and hate using pathos.
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