Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 6-1-2018
Publication Title
The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society
Volume
13
Issue
2
Abstract
Combining a dramatistic analysis with the Toulmin model productively contributes to a rhetorical understanding of the 2016 presidential election and locates Burke as an integral component of political communication criticism. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's rhetoric differed not only on policy arguments, but also on their rhetorical vision for America. Trump's campaign arguments privileged the agent and thus invoked identification with an idealist worldview, while Clinton's rhetoric privileged agency and thus invoked identification with a pragmatic one. Warrants and worldviews are interconnected parts of campaign rhetoric that contribute to both persuasion and identification.
Disciplines
American Politics
File Format
File Size
223 KB
Language
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Repository Citation
Bloomfield, E. F.,
Tscholl, G.
(2018).
Analyzing Warrants and Worldviews in the Rhetoric of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: Burke and Argumentation in the 2016 Presidential Election.
The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society, 13(2),
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psq.12490
