WordWatchers offers an extensive and articulate linguistic analysis of the speech of the two US presidential candidates here: The Meaning of Words: Obama versus McCain.
I would have liked to see more about prescriptives. It appears that McCain (and Palin, as described in other posts on the site) both use "should" more the Obama and Biden, but WordWatchers ascribes this to "more social thinking", which I don't entirely understand.
Perhaps we can do a similar analysis on these speeches looking for prescriptives and rigid vs flexible word choice, etc.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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