Abstract:Using the methodology of conversation analysis and a modified analytical framework, this article attempts to
characterize and investigate Trump’s practices to resist the agendas of the interviewers’ questions during the press briefings
held by the Trump Administration in 2020. Statistical data show that Trump mainly used four types of overt resistant response
practices in order of decreasing frequency: (1) Justifying the resistance; (2) Providing a partial answer; (3) Flatly
refusing to ans… Show more
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