{"id":50903,"date":"2012-09-06T16:27:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=50903"},"modified":"2012-09-06T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T21:27:40","slug":"words-the-democratic-and-republican-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/09\/06\/words-the-democratic-and-republican-conventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Words: The Democratic and Republican Conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times ran these graphics showing the word frequencies of the\u00a0Republican<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Democratic<\/a>\u00a0conventions.\u00a0 I\u2019ve added underlining on the keywords that seem to differentiate the two conventions. (The data on the Democrats runs only through Sept. 4, but it looks like the themes announced early on will be the ones that are repeated.)<\/p>\n

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Both parties talked about leadership, the economy, jobs, and families.\u00a0 More interesting are the differences.\u00a0 Democrats talked a lot about Women, a word which seems to be absent from the Republican vocabulary.\u00a0 The Democrats also talked about Health and Education.\u00a0 I find it curious that Education does not appear in the Republican word cloud.<\/div>\n

The Republican dictionary falls open to the page with Business – ten times as many mentions as in the Democrats\u2019 concordance.\u00a0 If you go to the interactive Times graphic, you can click on Business and see examples of the contexts for the word.\u00a0 Many of these excerpts also contain the word Success.<\/p>\n

You can put the large-bubble words in each graphic in a sentence that condenses the party\u2019s message about government, though that word \u2013 Government \u2013 does not appear in either graphic.\u00a0\u00a0 For the Republicans, government should lower Taxes so that Business can Succeed, creating Jobs.<\/p>\n

For the Democrats, government should protect the rights of Women and ensure that everyone has access to Health and Education.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most telling most interesting word in the Democratic cloud is Together.\u00a0 The Republican story is one of individual success in business, summed up in their repeated phrase, \u201cI built that.\u201d\u00a0 The Democrats apparently are emphasizing what people can accomplish together.\u00a0 These different visions are not new.\u00a0 They go back at least to the nineteenth century.\u00a0 (Six years ago, I blogged here<\/a>\u00a0about these visions as NFL brands — Cowboys and Steelers — and their parallels in US politics.)<\/p>\n

(HT:\u00a0Neal Caren<\/a>\u00a0who has posted his own data about the different balance of emotional expression at the two conventions.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog. The New York Times ran these graphics showing the word frequencies of the\u00a0Republican\u00a0and\u00a0Democratic\u00a0conventions.\u00a0 I\u2019ve added underlining on the keywords that seem to differentiate the two conventions. (The data on the Democrats runs only through Sept. 4, but it looks like the themes announced early on will be the ones that are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,36,34,55,252,272,85,8121,304,76],"class_list":["post-50903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-economics","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-healthmedicine","tag-marriagefamily","tag-politics","tag-election-2012","tag-the-state","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50909,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50903\/revisions\/50909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}