An Exploration of Presidential Vocabulary by Year

Charles Becker
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Abstract: Abstract During his 2020 State of the Union address, did President Trump use a vocabulary that was especially self-aggrandizing, or arising from insecurity or inferiority? Mining the historical records, I conducted a naïve analysis of presidential vocabulary from the founding to the present day. My conclusion is that Trump’s use of first-person pronouns is not notably different from his recent peers, but along the way some possibly meaningful patterns in how presidents speak of themselves and of us emerged.

Date: 2020-05-30
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DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2tysj

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