Observer, “A Word’s-Eye View of the First GOP Debate” (Aug. 7, 2015)
Following the first debate in the 2016 Republican primary contest, aired on Fox News last night, Vocabulary.com has released a rapid-response survey of the candidates’ vocabulary, showcasing the most relevant words for each candidate and the debate overall…
By seeing how the candidates’ vocabulary stacks up to our corpus, we can clearly determine which words take on special significance for each speaker, whether those words relate to policy initiatives or simply add some rhetorical power to the candidates’ debate performance.
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