Trump’s Thumbs: Pollice Verso and the Spectacle of Ambiguity

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W. Duffy
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ABSTRACT This essay uses the figure of pollice verso, the “turned thumb” gesture synonymous with Roman gladiatorial contests, as a speculative tool to account for Donald Trump’s use of ambiguity in his rhetoric. Specifically, the essay argues that translating Trump’s demonstrative rhetoric into a deliberative frame can lead to misunderstanding one of his chief resources as a rhetor: the ambiguity of his “thumbful” rhetoric. Through a discussion of Third Sophistic rhetorical theory, affect, and the comedian Sarah Cooper’s parodies of Trump, the essay argues why countergesture should be considered just as indispensable as counterargument for rhetoricians who teach about affordances of digital media.
特朗普的大拇指:民意测验与歧义奇观
摘要本文使用pollice verso(罗马角斗士比赛的同义词)作为推测工具,来解释唐纳德·特朗普在言辞中使用的歧义。具体而言,这篇文章认为,将特朗普的示范性言论转化为审议框架可能会导致误解他作为修辞者的主要资源之一:他的“拇指”言论的模糊性。通过对第三复杂修辞理论、情感和喜剧演员莎拉·库珀对特朗普的模仿的讨论,本文认为,对于教授数字媒体可供性的修辞学家来说,为什么反手势应该被视为与反论点一样不可或缺。
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