
75: Fake News (with Jack Grieve)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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The Role of First Person Pronouns in Fake News
First person pronouns are up in fake news, contrary to what I just said. Pronouns get cut from concise writing in general because they're more prominent than conversation. Average word length is higher in this person's real stories and his sentence has got a lot shorter in the fake story. All these features that are associated with more informationally dense text.
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