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Abstract

Abstract

During the National Policy Institute’s national conference in Washington D.C. on Saturday November 19th, 2016, Richard Spencer delivered a speech in praise of the election victory of President Donald Trump. Shortly after the conference, Spencer was an invited guest on the programme in which he participated in a 32-minute interview with black journalist, host and managing editor Roland Martin. Drawing attention to the ideological aspects of the Martin/Spencer interview performance, we adopt the analytical lens of the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Musolff 2014Reisigl and Wodak 2009Wodak 20012009) to explore argumentation as a discursive strategy through or argumentative warrants (Reisigl and Wodak 2009Wodak 200920112015Wodak and Boukala 2015).

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