Stories by Jennifer Sclafani

Jennifer Sclafani is affiliate scholar and former associate teaching professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston and is the author of Talking Donald Trump: A Sociolinguistic Study of Style, Metadiscourse, and Political Identity(Routledge, 2017).

Can a Woman Sound Presidential?

Women in politics are navigating the double bind of language and gender as they race toward 2020

His idiosyncratic patterns of speech, not just what he says, are why people tend either to love him or hate him