Donald Trump is creating a whole new political language
The current political discourse sounds like people are speaking two different languages, according to a new study. Penn State psychologists determined that even though Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were both speaking English during the 2016 presidential election, semantically, they were so far apart that the difference was actually worse than if one of them were speaking Chinese. In a series of studies, the researchers found a split between the words democrats and republican presidential candidates used and how they meant them - they also found this'semantic divide' appears to be growing and may continue to make the possibility of a bipartisan dialogue difficult, if not impossible. The Penn State researchers compiled a list of 213 single words and 397 word phrases, including 136 politically charged words like'minority,' 'spending' and'justice.' They looked at all Presidential elections since 1999 and used an artificial intelligence neural network to statistically examine how often the words appeared together.
Jul-31-2017, 20:40:05 GMT