Workers at the Pushkin Russian Language Institute, together with the Ministry of Communications, conducted a study of literacy in public speech. Moreover, the speech of non-television presenters, journalists and actors was analyzed - no, we are talking about politicians.
The study analyzed the public speech of politicians presented in news and analytical programs on radio and television. After analyzing 21 ratings, the most famous and influential people were selected, who were divided into four categories according to their positions. Errors in their public statements (in news and analytical television and radio programs) are counted, analyzed and arranged in order. The lower the ratio, the more mistakes politicians make per unit of time.
Here's what it looks like literacy rating of officials of the Russian Federation.
4. Heads of constituent entities of the Federation: coefficient 2.3
The worst are spoken in Russian by the governors and presidents of the republics. They incorrectly emphasize the words (“ringing” or “ringing”), love the letter “e” and use it where necessary and where it is not necessary (“academia”, “debate”), are confused in management (“a lot of money for this” ) and education of a comparative degree (“kinder than us”), (phraseological units are creatively processed (“cast a shadow on honest people”), and they also like constructions in the spirit of “it was raining and two gunners” and parasitic words.
3. Heads of municipalities: 6.3
They make the same mistakes as the heads of the constituent entities of the Federation, but there are distinguishing features. For example, the abundance of tautology (“correct development is also correct”) or errors in pronouncing complex words such as “incident”. Also, officials of city district administrations like to use the plural instead of the singular ("food shortages"), make mistakes in the formation of words (for example, use the return suffix "-sya" where it is not needed) and incorrectly decline the numerals. The logical sequence of officials' speech is also suffering.
2. Deputies of the State Duma: 6.4
In addition to mistakes common to politicians, deputies often violate the lexical compatibility of words (“form a question”), use the wrong prepositions (“from the regions”), and generally prefer to speak “reduced Russian” - they like colloquial and colloquial variants of words (“finally,” “Nicho”, etc.) and abundantly decorate their speech with parasitic words and particles “they say” and “here”.
1. Federal Ministers: 9.4
The first persons of the state are leaders in this rating. They are expressed almost impeccably competently, making mistakes only in the stress of certain words. Phraseological units also suffer, paronyms get confused with each other (for example, “competitive” and “competitive”), the norms of management and construction of sentences are violated. But in general, we can say that statesmen are expressed more or less competently. Not only that, scientists note that they have a rich vocabulary, syntactically diverse speech, and the train of thought as a whole is understandable to listeners. However, to attend a couple of trainings and often look in the dictionary still does not interfere.
According to scientists, the public speech of politicians, along with books, films and television shows, can serve as a role model for the population of the country (it’s scary to imagine what damage Chernomyrdin had done in his time). By the quality of speech of politicians, the population can judge their working qualities and the competence of the governing bodies as a whole.
