Partisan Patterns in Presidential Campaign Speeches, 1948-2000.
This article investigates partisan language and its role in American political campaigns by addressing two fundamental questions: Can the differences between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates be reliably identified by a careful inspection of their speeches? and Have their speeches ch...
| Publicado en: | Communication Quarterly Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 403 - 420 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Fall2004
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