Political speech against democracy Trump's populism, bias and fallacy after the US elections (3-N)

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Concha Pérez Curiel
Ricardo Domínguez García

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The Capitol riot and the impeachment process against Donald Trump, after the US elections (3-N), reopen the debate of the Rhetoric power in political discourse. A leader not subject to rules imposes the language of disinformation and populism as the axis of the story. Twitter becomes a tool for the delegitimization of institutions, through a message that harangues the masses to mobilize. The main objective of the study is to learn about Trump's themes and his discursive strategies on Twitter, aimed to denouncing the conspiracy and fraud of the electoral results. We applied a triangulated content analysis methodology based on the use of keywords (15,365) on a general sample of tweets (721) published by the president from the day after the elections until the proclamation of Joe Biden as president-elect of the United States. The advancement of results highlights the influence of the leader, ahead of governments and parties, the power of a simple and subliminal language, the personal bias of winner or victim and an unprecedented capacity to produce fallacies on Twitter. The effects of Trump's lie on the social audience require joint actions by institutions, the media and social platforms that guarantee the future of democracy.

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Pérez Curiel, C., & Domínguez García, R. (2021). Political speech against democracy: Trump’s populism, bias and fallacy after the US elections (3-N). Culture, Language and Representation, 26, 7–28. https://doi.org/10.6035/clr.5807
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Concha Pérez Curiel, Universidad de Sevilla

Concha Pérez Curiel is a professor of Political and Economic Journalism at the University of Seville. She teaches in the Master of Institutional and Political Communication and in the Master of European Studies. She belongs to the Communication & Social Sciences research group (SEJ-619). She is a member of State R + D + I Projects. Her line of research is framed in political journalism, institutional communication and studies on influence, misinformation and journalistic quality. She has publications in scientific journals of impact and international reference publishers.

Ricardo Domínguez García, Universidad de Sevilla

Journalist, specialized in political communication and with more than ten years of professional experience. He has a doctorate in Communication, a master's degree in Institutional and Political Communication and a degree in Journalism from the University of Seville. He is an honorary assistant in the Department of Journalism II at the University of Seville and a member of the Communication & Social Sciences research group.

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