Yuchen Xu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuchen Xu is involved.
Articles
2026 Persuasive pragmatics in US presidential campaign discourse: A corpus-based comparison of Trump and Harris in the 2024 election Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
In this study, we compare the persuasive pragmatics of campaign speeches delivered by Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in key swing states during the 2024 US presidential election, with particular attention to peripheral-route processing within the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM). Employing… read more
Constructing the Other: A discourse-historical analysis of othering in Trump’s populist discourse Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines how the construction of the Other evolves in Donald Trump’s right-wing populist discourse across his three U.S. presidential campaigns. Using a corpus-assisted Discourse-Historical Approach, it traces shifting targets of exclusion in campaign speeches and the discursive… read more