Liberals lecture, conservatives communicate: Analyzing complexity and ideology in 381,609 political speeches.

There is some evidence that liberal politicians use more complex language than conservative politicians. This evidence, however, is based on a specific set of speeches of US members of Congress and UK members of Parliament. This raises the question whether the relationship between ideology and lingu...

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Main Authors: Martijn Schoonvelde, Anna Brosius, Gijs Schumacher, Bert N Bakker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208450