Multimodal Communication in Political Speech Shaping Minds and Social Action

Introduction.- The Orator.- Multimodal Indicators of Persuasion in Political Interviews.- Towards a Political Action.- An Ethnographic Investigation into Gender and Language in the Northern Ireland Assembly.- Intonation in Political Speech: Ségolène Royal vs. Nicolas Sarkozy.- A Diachronic Analysis of Face-to-Face Discussions: Berlusconi, from 1994 to 2010.- The Audience.- Counterfactual Communication in Politics: Features and Effects on Voters.- The New Release of CORPS: a Corpus of Political Speeches Annotated with Audience Reactions.- Multimodal Behaviour and Interlocutor Identification in Political Debates.- Political Leaders' Communicative Style and Audience Evaluation in an Italian General Election Debate.- The Discourse: Contents.- Sometimes I, Sometimes Me: A Study on the Use of Autobiographical Memories in Two Political Speeches by Barack Obama.- Communicating Politics. A Study on the Representations of the 2008 Electoral Campaign in the Italian Daily Press.- Certain-Uncertain, True-False, Good-Evil in Italian Political Speeches.- Discrediting Body. A Multimodal Strategy to Spoil the Other's Image.- Racism and Immigration in Social Advertisings Promoted by Italian Government and Non-governmental Institutions.- The Discourse: Structures.- Politolinguistics. Towards a New Analysis of Political Discourse.- Linguistic Factors in Political Speech.- Fallacies as Argumentative Devices in Political Debates.- Sprinkled Metonymies in the Analysis of Political Discourse with Corpus Linguistics Techniques: a Case Study.