Analysis

Our analysis of James Hamblin’s article “Trump is a Climax of American Masculinity” is inspired by the rhetorical pentagram model. Below you will find a short overview of the main points in our analysis.

In what follows, we will look at the topics of the article – Donald Trump’s stereotypical masculinity and American masculine culture.

We will present the writer and his position on the topics of the article, as well as the way he relates to his target audience.

We will also examine the reader – the potential readers of the text and the writer’s target audience. 

We will analyze how the speaker uses language tools to achieve his intention. For example, we will look at the choice of words, the sentence structure, the speaker’s tone, and at how the speaker appeals to the audience’s trust and reason.

We will discuss the circumstances of the speech, looking at the 2016 presidential race in the US and the controversy surrounding the Republican candidate, Donald Trump.

Lastly, we will connect the speaker’s intention of proving that Donald Trump is representative of American toxic masculinity with the language tools he uses, the circumstances, and the topics of the speech.