{"id":6046,"date":"2009-01-20T22:09:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2010-12-10T03:42:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T08:42:47","slug":"emphasis-in-obamas-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/20\/emphasis-in-obamas-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Emphasis in Obama&#8217;s Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> put together an interactive graphic showing, for each U.S. President&#8217;s in augural speech, a word cloud with the most used words, with larger words being used more frequently than smaller words.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/01\/17\/washington\/20090117_ADDRESSES.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see the whole thing and look at any specific speech.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Obama&#8217;s speech.\u00a0 The words in yellow (&#8220;generation,&#8221; &#8220;crisis,&#8221; &#8220;hard,&#8221; &#8220;job,&#8221; &#8220;women,&#8221; and &#8220;endure) were used more by Obama than in the average inaugural speech:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/01\/inaugural_address.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6047\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/01\/inaugural_address.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is interesting because it helps us see what is being emphasized by different President&#8217;s at different times, and also how language changes. For example, for George Washington in 1789, the word &#8220;God&#8221;\u00a0was not among his most used\u00a0 He does, however, use the word &#8220;pecuniary&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/pecuniary\" target=\"_blank\">of or relating to money<\/a>) a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/us_presidential_inaugural_addresses_1789_to_the_present.html\" target=\"_blank\">infosthetics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times put together an interactive graphic showing, for each U.S. President&#8217;s in augural speech, a word cloud with the most used words, with larger words being used more frequently than smaller words.\u00a0 Click here to see the whole thing and look at any specific speech. Here is Obama&#8217;s speech.\u00a0 The words in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,253,85],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-history","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30470,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions\/30470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}