Why partisan politics may be changing people’s accents
Scientific American · Valerie M. Fridland, The Conversation US ·
With the midterms fast approaching, communicating just the right message has been top of mind on all sides of the political aisle
With the midterms fast approaching, communicating just the right message has been top of mind on all sides of the political aisle.
Whether that message drives home a lack of affordability as gas, food and home prices surge or stokes fears about the rise of communism in the American heartland, Democrats and Republicans are spending a lot of time thinking about what to say.
But as a linguist who studies the impact of accents on the way people are perceived, I believe how politicians and voters say what they say might be just as important as the words they use in understanding the social consequences and linguistic changes resulting from the political divides that are growing between us.
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