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'Framing' Political Arguments

NPR's Michele Norris talks with linguistics professor George Lakoff, of the University of California, Berkeley, about political language and "framing" in this election year. He says conservatives have been much better at enforcing or perpetuating their views than their liberal counterparts. One of Lakoff's examples: the phrase "tax relief."

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