# Searching for coherence in high-stakes utterances

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-09-01-searching-for-coherence-in-high-stakes-utterances

The piece explains a pageant contestant's incoherent answer as a failed attempt to integrate stock public frames under pressure rather than evidence of low intelligence.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 September 2007

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 1 September 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: language, cognition, political-discourse, conceptual-framing.

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