Select A Suitable Speech For Donald Trump And For William Clintonson Analysis

Part B: the language of the presidential candidates
1. Select a suitable speech for Donald Trump and for Hilary Clinton and do a frequency analysis of both texts. What are the ten most frequent words, and how is this list different from the Oxford English Corpus? Any explanations for this?
Both of the frequency analyses in Table 3.a and 3.b in the appendix show a remarkable similarity to the Oxford English Corpus list (appendix, Table 1.c) in the respect that they contain almost every word the OEC list contains as well, although the rankings are occasionally different.
In the case of Clinton’s speech (appendix, Table 3.a) , only one word cannot be found in the OEC list and this is ‘we’. For Trump’s speech (appendix, Table 3.b) this is true
Perform a keyword analysis of the two speeches against the American reference list provided. What keywords emerge? Any negative keywords? Any explanations for what you found?
The first thing to be considered is that the American reference model used was created by looking at various written texts on the internet and that the text used by us was originally a speech. Moreover, this original speech was transcribed and altering a spoken text to a written one can bring about a few differences. The author of the transcription has stayed true to the exact words and style Clinton used, but has probably written down many contracted forms, such as ‘we’ve’ and ‘didn’t’. Consequently, WordSmith lists groups of letters before after an apostrophe as ‘(key)words’ in this particular analysis even though ‘isn’ and ‘s’ are not natural words. However, groups of letters such as ‘ve’, ‘ll’, ‘t’, and ‘re’ may be interpreted as ‘have’, ‘will/shall’, ‘not’ and ‘are’ respectively. The same applies to ‘isn’ and ‘didn’ to be interpreted as ‘is’ and ‘did’.
The most notable keywords that emerge in the keyword analysis of Clinton’s speech in Table 4.a in the appendix can be divided into two groups:
1. ‘America’, ‘Americans’, ‘country’, ‘our’, ‘we’, ‘every’, and
It may be worth mentioning that he does use a lot of synonyms for and descriptions of immigrants, such as ‘overstays’, ‘aliens’ and ‘criminals’. These synonyms clearly show his attitude towards these people and the measures that should be taken according to him concerning their ‘overstay’ in America. These measures can in turn also be found in keywords such as ‘deported/deportation’ and ‘illegal’; Trump makes it clear that he does not desire immigrants in