If you watched last night’s VP debate, you may have noticed that JD Vance and Tim Walz used very different terms when discussing issues like immigration and abortion. Linguistics professor Nicole Holliday explains how phrases like “illegal immigrants” or “migrants” can become a “shibboleth” that signal someone’s political leanings.

🎧 Listen to Holliday discuss the way that candidates’ speech influences how they are perceived on our podcast, Science Quickly, at the link https://www.scientificamerican.com/po....

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🎞Carin Leong
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