Politicians who are not white and male see their actions analyzed based on their minority status-e.g., President Obama did X because he’s black. "Unless for some reason the atmosphere of CPAC creates strikingly shriller voices…"įought says Paul is in "the position with the most flexibility" because he's a white guy, and we expect politicians to be white guys. "Apparently in pitch range, as in other respects, Rand Paul is sui generis," says Liberman, who runs the popular linguistics blog Language Log. (Paul didn’t speak at that event, so Liberman used his CPAC address from February.) The striking results are in the chart below. University of Pennsylvania linguist Mark Liberman analyzed the first minute or so of the Republican candidates' speeches at the National Rifle Association conference this month. White, Southern-he speaks with a lot of emotion." Of the candidates Fought looked at, the Bubba-to-Bubble spectrum goes like this: Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton. So while Bubbles moderate their speech, because we associate them with being rational and therefore less emotional, “Bubbas are emotional, they have feelings about things, which is funny because it’s like a male stereotype.” A smaller pitch range is associated with being more formal, a bigger one with being more casual. Though he may not have all the same political positions as a bubba like Huckabee, Fought says, “Rand Paul is the most Bubba of them all.
You don’t say your grandmother died in same flat way you’d order a sandwich. A big difference is how much emotion the two groups show with their pitch range-how high and low your voice goes. “We associate pitch range with being emotional,” Fought explains. Bubbas, as the name implies, have regional accents. “The candidates are kind of splitting up the Bubbas/Bubbles thing,” Fought says. Bubbles have an unmarked dialect-"anything regional has kind of been educated out of you” in college. Fought studies how we use language to project identity, which is what these candidates, especially the less well-known Republican field, are doing as they introduce themselves to voters. Bush as rugged manly man-was too sophisticated, then this book’s for you. While it may lack new political insights, Huckabee’s book offers a framework for analyzing the candidates’ speaking style, says Carmen Fought, a Pitzer College linguistics professor. If you thought the broad theme of the 2004 election-John Kerry as elite fancypants, George W.
Mike Huckabee, who is considering running for president again, has a new-ish campaign book called God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy in which he divides America into two groups: the “Bubbles,” who are haute-lettuce-eating college professors in cities on the coasts, and the “Bubbas,” who are the real Americans. Of course, he went on to sign landmark civil rights laws. Lemme show mah scar." Johnson had a reputation as crude and uncultured. In frustration, Bruce-as-Johnson yelps, "I cain't hep it! I cain't say it!.
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"It took him six months to learn how to say negro." He imagines handlers trying to teach Johnson to say “negro,” but the sound of the n-word keeps slipping through.
"They didn't let him talk for the first six months," Bruce says. Take, for example, Lenny Bruce’s early 1960s imitation of Lyndon Johnson. It's also because Clinton has been in the public eye for far longer. The conventional wisdom about Clinton's character has fully matured, but it's still forming for her potential Republican competitors, like a cicada grub nestled underground. Despite our collective sexist tendencies, the Republican candidates' voices will eventually get some attention.Ī politician's voice shapes how we see him. Maybe you don’t know what Ted Cruz sounds like, except that he sounds like a jerk. Why? In part it's because women’s voices are scrutinized more. like a guy, maybe? It's probably hard for you to recall distinguishing features about most of the Republican candidates. It’s so-wait, what does it sound like again? He sounds just. Or inauthentic-that phony Southern accent! Those flat Midwestern vowels! Whatever it is, her voice is burned into your brain. You know Hillary Clinton’s voice, right? I mean, you know it.
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