August 11, 2025

A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's Inaugural Addresses

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Trump's address was more concrete and aggressive while focusing on the future, highlighting distinct personality traits.
Biden's speech was more personal and dynamic, revealing a different set of linguistic choices and personality aspects.
Analysis utilized WordSmith Tools 5.0 for detailed corpus processing of both presidents' speeches.
Findings imply variations in language choices can reflect the underlying personality traits of leaders.

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This study attempted to explore the relationship between the language tendencies of two U.S. presidents in their inaugural addresses and their personalities and how their word choices revealed their personality traits. Two inaugural speeches given by Donald Trump and Joe Biden during their presidency were collected and examined via a set of corpus-processing software called WordSmith Tools 5.0. From the comparison and analysis of the collected data, the study found that Donald Trump was more concrete, positive, formal and distant, aggressive and pointed and paid more attention to the future; Joe Biden was more personal, dynamic, detailed, and censored himself more. In addition, the two presidents were the same social and talked almost the sa

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Maosheng Hung (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68a370ef0a429f7973333786 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.47310/hjel.2021.v02i01.019