Initial Analysis of Presidential Candidate Speeches

critical discourse analysis of two political speeches in light of bakhtins dialogism

چکیده گفتگوگری باختین نظریه ای است که به تفاوت ها احترام گذاشته و گفتگو را ارج می نهد. رشته های مختلف علوم انسانی همواره از این نظریه بهره جسته اند. با وجود این تنها مطالعات اندکی در زمینه تجزیه و تحلیل نقادانه کلام به نظریه گفتگوگری پرداخته اند. پنداشت تحقیق حاضر بر آن است که احترام به حقوق دیگران از طریق فراهم آوردن شرایط یکسان برای بیان نظریات مختلف یکی از مهمترین مشترکات تحلیل انتقادی گفتم...

A Readability Analysis of Campaign Speeches from the 2016 US Presidential Campaign

Introduction The goal of this report is to assess the readability of the campaign speeches of five presidential candidates in the 2016 US presidential race and to examine their evolution over time and according to the type of speech. Readability can be defined here as the reading level, from grade 1 to grade 12, of a document. It is determined by looking at the lexical contents and the grammati...

A Study on Conceptual Metaphors in Presidential Inaugural Speeches

Predicting Candidate Responses in Presidential Debates

In this paper we tried to predict what a candidate in a political debate (namely George W. Bush) is going to say, based on what the moderator and the other candidate just said. In order to achieve that, we first used PCA to reduce the dimensionality of the problem, and then applied several regression models in order to do the actual predictions. While the PCA turned up some interesting patterns...

Exploring the role of social identities in presidential candidate evaluation

Exploring the role of social identities in presidential candidate evaluation Taylor Michals Committee members: Dr. Crystal Hoyt, Dr. Al Goethals, Dr. Jennifer Erkulwater This research demonstrates how the social identities of race and gender can influence presidential candidate evaluation. Specifically, it emphasizes that political ideology and gender attitudes can play a significant role in ho...