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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Linguist: It's not "word-salad". Trump is a skilled orator and manipulator of the subconscious. [View all]
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/linguist-george-lakoff-pay-close-attention-trump-means-exactly-what-he-says/The thing to be aware of is that his words are carefully chosen. They go by quickly when people hear them. But they are processed unconsciously first by neural circuitryand neurons operate on a thousandth-of-a-second time scale. Your neural circuitry has plenty of time to engage in complex forms of understanding, based on what you already know.
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The point here is that Trumps use of language is anything but word salad. His words and his use of grammar are carefully chosen, and put together artfully, automatically and quickly.
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For five decades, Trump has been using all these techniques of selling and trying to make deals to his advantage. It seems to have become second nature for him to use these devices. And he uses them carefully and well. He is a talented charlatan. Keeping you off balance is part of his game, as is appealing to ordinary thought mechanisms in the people he is addressing.
It is vital that the media, and ordinary voters, learn to recognize his techniques. When the media fails to grasp what he is doing, it gives him an advantage. Every time someone in the media claims his discourse is word salad, it helps Trump by hiding what he is really doing.
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Linguist: It's not "word-salad". Trump is a skilled orator and manipulator of the subconscious. [View all]
DetlefK
Aug 2016
OP
As the internet repeatedly proves, you can find someone who believes in anything.
BobbyDrake
Aug 2016
#5
Way back in sales school, it was said that people remember around 40% of what you say.
Snarkoleptic
Aug 2016
#7
Hitler had Goebbels, who made the Nazi propaganda machine into the diabolical force it was
anneboleyn
Aug 2016
#46
Trump is probably more of a talented amateur than a professor of influence peddling himself
localroger
Aug 2016
#39
"Silly me, I can't remember Trump ever saying anything about Medicare or healthcare."
pinboy3niner
Aug 2016
#23
some folks can sell screen doors on submarines....trump is one of those...do not underestimate him
dembotoz
Aug 2016
#24
He didn't con so many into supporting him by being a total dummy and not knowing how to persuade
pinboy3niner
Aug 2016
#52
I don't know that "skill" is the most accurate word for what Trump does.
world wide wally
Aug 2016
#44
He repeats "key words" three times. Always. Like "terrible," "terrible," "terrible." I am sure
anneboleyn
Aug 2016
#45
Actually, he's a mental moran and a racist idiot who just talks like that, part of the culture
Coyotl
Aug 2016
#49
When will someone mention that disgusting hand gesture he constantly does with
Pathwalker
Aug 2016
#57