George W. Bush and the US Supreme Court

Long, Emma

doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748627400.003.0004

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“…W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, receives much criticism and flattery during his presidency that lasts from 2001 to 2009. Some psychologists, authors, political commentators, journalists and analysts-such as Woodward (2002), Black (2004), Andersson (2005), Long (2009), and Judis (2005)-point out that Bush attempts to place himself as a legendary ethical leader who evokes past events to urge the Americans to keep up fighting terrorism for the sake of liberty and democracy. Others, such as Pfiffner (2003), Greene (2006), Rodriguez (2006), Kushner and Gershkoff (2005), assert that Bush is a manipulative cunning lying president who attempts to set a false link between 9/11 attacks and Saddam Hussein.…”

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Spontaneity of Speech Errors: A Diagnostic Psycholinguistic Case Study

Abdulaal¹,

Abuslema²

2020

IJEL

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The aim of this study is to use speech errors as a verbal means of communication to clarify the psychological aspects of George W. Bush’s character. Bush’s character is chosen for being highly controversial, having received the lowest approval rating in 2008 and the highest approval rating after the September 11 attacks. To achieve the aim of this study, a psycholinguistic approach is adopted in addition to a speech production model set by Dell (1999), and Chang and Griffin (1999). Some of Bush’s spontaneous errors are supposed to be collected, and then categorized from a psycholinguistic perspective and finally analyzed statistically. The main results of the study can be summed in the following points. (a) The phonological and morphological errors, caused by the psychological priming, reveal how much perplexity and confusion Bush has experienced. (b) Bush’s Freudian slips—caused by psycho-physiological factors, such as fatigue, excitement, and distraction—reveal the fact that he is not an open outright president as he represses many thoughts and feelings more than he shows. (c) Bush’s syntactic errors, caused by the improper lexical insertion, reveal his poor linguistic competence; the matter that reveals low intelligence for many psychologists such as Pishghadam and Shams (2012). (d) The economical use of speech disfluencies, caused by problems in the recognition system, reveals that Bush has a tendency of rashness. That is, he may take rapid incorrect decisions that lead to catastrophes.

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confidence: 99%