Syntactic Complexity and Political Ideology: A Study of Czechoslovak and Czech Presidential Speeches

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17250%2F25%3AA2603CCV" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17250/25:A2603CCV - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.juls.savba.sk/ediela/jc/2025/1/jc25-01.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.juls.savba.sk/ediela/jc/2025/1/jc25-01.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0031" target="_blank" >10.2478/jazcas-2025-0031</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Syntactic Complexity and Political Ideology: A Study of Czechoslovak and Czech Presidential Speeches

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This study analyzes syntactic complexity in Czechoslovak and Czech presidential speeches, using a corpus of New Year’s addresses spanning nearly a century. Applying quantitative stylometric methods, we measure average sentence length (ASL), average clause length (ACL), mean dependency distance (MDD), and mean hierarchical distance (MHD) to compare syntactic structures across democratic and communist regimes. The results show that democratic presidents generally use more complex sentence structures, while communist-era speeches are syntactically simpler. However, individual differences are also observed inside groups. Husák exhibits higher complexity among communist leaders, and modern democratic presidents (Klaus, Zeman, Pavel) show a trend toward simplification. These findings confirm ideological influences on presidential rhetoric and highlight a broader shift toward linguistic accessibility in contemporary political speech.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Syntactic Complexity and Political Ideology: A Study of Czechoslovak and Czech Presidential Speeches

Popis výsledku anglicky

This study analyzes syntactic complexity in Czechoslovak and Czech presidential speeches, using a corpus of New Year’s addresses spanning nearly a century. Applying quantitative stylometric methods, we measure average sentence length (ASL), average clause length (ACL), mean dependency distance (MDD), and mean hierarchical distance (MHD) to compare syntactic structures across democratic and communist regimes. The results show that democratic presidents generally use more complex sentence structures, while communist-era speeches are syntactically simpler. However, individual differences are also observed inside groups. Husák exhibits higher complexity among communist leaders, and modern democratic presidents (Klaus, Zeman, Pavel) show a trend toward simplification. These findings confirm ideological influences on presidential rhetoric and highlight a broader shift toward linguistic accessibility in contemporary political speech.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Jazykovedný časopis

ISSN

0021-5597

e-ISSN

1338-4287

Svazek periodika

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Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

345-354

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105024797623