Decorum and Narration: Trump, Clinton and ‘the Deplorables’
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narrative rhetoric, kategoria, decorum, the deplorables, TrumpAbstract
At least since Cicero, the notion of decorum has been a key element in the education of public speakers as well as in the reflections on what public speaking is or should be. The current media climate seems saturated with emotional debates about appropriateness, debates where the questions of what is fitting is not relegated to the margins but rather situated at the very heart of what the debate is about. This article investigates aspects of accusations of breached decorum, guided by the assumption that this type of kategoria often follows a narrative logic: accusations retrospectively tell a story about a breach of decorum while prospectively using this story to constitute group identities. The objects of the study are artefacts from the Trump campaign’s accusations of breaches of decorum, following from Clinton’s statement that half of the potential Trump voters could be considered deplorable.
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