Trump is a “unique” politician because he doesn’t speak like one, according to Jennifer Sclafani, an associate teaching professor in Georgetown University’s Department of Linguistics.

Jennifer Lynn Sclafani was born in Reno, Nevada on Nevada Day, October 31, 1969. She entered eternal life on January 23, 2025. She is preceded by her brother, Larry (1998), Uncle George (2008), and ...

Trump’s language and tone were more “traditionally presidential” than in his previous speeches as a candidate and president, said linguist Jennifer Sclafani, an associate teaching professor ...

said Jennifer Sclafani, an assistant professor of applied linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the author of “Talking Donald Trump.” “Trump tends to remain at a very ...

Jennifer Sclafani's analysis found Trump's presidential words are an extension of his style as an executive in the business world. Sclafani said Trump used "believe me" in 26 speeches ...

Trump's critics have long criticized the Republican candidate for being incoherent. Jennifer Sclafani is a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, and she has been studying the language ...

“Trump has garnered many supporters who are drawn precisely to his message,” according to Georgetown University Linguist Jennifer Sclafani. The metaphors, says Sclafani, “give the impression ...

Instead, Trump “paused to savor it for several seconds before continuing his speech,” noted Jennifer Sclafani, a linguist who studies political discourse and gender. “He even thrice nodded ...

The network asked Georgetown linguistics professor Jennifer Sclafani to study Trump’s remarks during the past three months. Sclafani said she found that Trump said “believe me” 26 times in ...

Trump also uses short verb phrases, which seem simplistic on their face, Sclafani said. She cited an example about immigration from the Feb. 25 Republican debate, in which Trump said: But ...

How to explain the “idiolect” of Donald Trump? An “idiolect,” explains sociolinguist Jennifer Sclafani, is “not the language of idiots, but an idiosyncratic form of language that is ...