Multimodal communication in political speech : Shaping minds and social action : International Workshop, Political Speech 2010, Rome, Italy, November 10-12, 2010, Revised selected papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimodal Communication in Political Speech: Shaping Minds and Social Actions, held in Rome, Italy, during November 10-12, 2010. The 16 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions and presented with three key-notes. The purpose of the Political Speech workshops is to provide a forum for discussing research areas of persuasive agents and social signal processing. This book covers topics on multimodal aspects of political communication, including persuasion, fallacies, racist discourse, as well as music, autobiographic memories, metonymies, dominant postures, rhetorical strategies, interruptions, intonation, and voice appeal. Front Matter....Pages - Introduction....Pages 1-15 Multimodal Indicators of Persuasion in Political Interviews....Pages 16-29 Towards a Political Actio....Pages 30-38 An Ethnographic Investigation into Gender and Language in the Northern Ireland Assembly....Pages 39-53 Intonation in Political Speech: Ségolène Royal vs. Nicolas Sarkozy....Pages 54-64 A Diachronic Analysis of Face-to-Face Discussions: Berlusconi, Fifteen Years Later....Pages 65-74 Counterfactual Communication in Politics: Features and Effects on Voters....Pages 75-85 The New Release of CORPS: A Corpus of Political Speeches Annotated with Audience Reactions....Pages 86-98 Multimodal Behaviour and Interlocutor Identification in Political Debates....Pages 99-113 Political Leaders’ Communicative Style and Audience Evaluation in an Italian General Election Debate....Pages 114-132 Sometimes I , Sometimes Me : A Study on the Use of Autobiographical Memories in Two Political Speeches by Barack Obama....Pages 133-148 Communicating Politics. A Study on the Representations of the 2008 Electoral Campaign in the Italian Daily Press....Pages 149-163 Certain-Uncertain, True-False, Good-Evil in Italian Political Speeches....Pages 164-180 Discrediting Body. A Multimodal Strategy to Spoil the Other’s Image....Pages 181-206 Racism and Immigration in Social Advertisings Promoted by Italian Government and Non-governmental Institutions....Pages 207-219 Politolinguistics. Towards a New Analysis of Political Discourse....Pages 220-232 Linguistic Factors in Political Speech....Pages 233-244 Fallacies as Argumentative Devices in Political Debates....Pages 245-257 Sprinkled Metonymies in the Analysis of Political Discourse with Corpus Linguistics Techniques: A Case Study....Pages 258-275 Back Matter....Pages -