What Does Palinspeak Mean?

[Monte Davis]

"...she speaks very much from the inside of her head, as someone
watching the issues from a considerable distance."

I see no evidence she's ever "watched an issue" at all. There are no
issues, just verbal tokens she tosses out because they get an audience
response, a la Searle's Chinese room.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Part of why Palin speaks the way she does is that she has grown up
> squarely within a period of American history when the old-fashioned
> sense of a speech as a carefully planned recitation, and public
> pronouncements as performative oratory, has been quite obsolete.
>
> [...]
>
> "What truly distinguishes Palin’s speech is its utter subjectivity:
> that is, she speaks very much from the inside of her head, as someone
> watching the issues from a considerable distance."
>
> [...]
>
> http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/john-mcwhorter/what-does-palinspeak-mean
>
> Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended former Florida
> Gov. Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish — or “Mexican,” according to Donald
> Trump — but also says that if you’re in this country, you should
> “speak American.”
>
> “It’s a benefit of Bush to be able to be so fluent, because we have a
> large and wonderful Hispanic population building America, and that’s a
> great connection he has with them,” Palin said Sunday morning on CNN’s
> “State of the Union.”
>
> “On the other hand, I think we can send a message and say, ‘You want
> to be in America, A, you’d better be here legally or you’re out of
> here. B, when you’re here, let’s speak American.”
>
> She went on to tell host Jake Tapper it is a “language that is
> understood by all.”
>
>
> http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1777009/sarah-palin-wants-everyone-speak-american/
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