Discrediting Body. A Multimodal Strategy to Spoil the Other’s Image

D’Errico, Francesca; Poggi, Isabella; Vincze, Laura

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41545-6_14

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“…The face is more than a "matrix of signs" that defines our identity (Leone 2021, 580). Multimodality takes into account the "multifunctional" aspect of emotional expressions (Scherer 1988, 80) and understands facial expressions as a semiotic mode for communicating emotions (Van Leeuwen 2005; D'Errico, Poggi, and Vincze 2013;Jewitt, Bezemer, and O'Halloran 2016). Following in the footsteps of Wierzbicka (1996Wierzbicka ( , 1999, Elliott and Jacobs (2013, 1) argue that facial expressions are "semiotic units (form-meaning pairings)" that can be analyzed in combination with other meaningful movements, such as hand gestures.…”

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The multimodal construction of political personae through the strategic management of semiotic resources of emotion expression

Drăgan

Farte

2022

Social Semiotics

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This paper presents an analytical framework for analyzing how multimodal resources of emotion expression are semiotically materialized in discursive interactions specific to political discourse. Interested in how political personae are emotionally constructed through multimodal meaning-making practices, our analysis model assumes an interdisciplinary perspective, which integrates facial expression analysisusing FaceReader™ software -, the theory of emotional arcs and bodily actions (hand gestures) analysis that express emotions, in the analytical framework of multimodality. The results show how the multimodal choices that political actors make during discursive interactions allow them to build their political brand and make connections with the audience on an emotional level.

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confidence: 99%

The multimodal construction of political personae through the strategic management of semiotic resources of emotion expression

Drăgan

Farte

2022

Social Semiotics

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Online moral struggles in hosting immigrant’s discourses

D’Errico

Paciello

2019

JLAC

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The present study aims to help better understand the cognitive and affective processes at work in ‘moral struggles’ concerning discussions about hosting immigrants. In particular, it will focus on the prosocial aspect of the debate on hosting of immigrants since previous studies have stressed mainly its racist nature. To this end, a total of 12,583 comments were extracted from the Facebook page of an Italian singer, divided into prosocial and proself stances, and analysed by developing a specific coding based on the theory of helping behaviour in emergency (Darley and Latané 1968) and the theory of moral agency (Bandura 1991). Prosocial processes were defined on the basis of the following ‘loci’: recipients, behaviour, consequences and agency. In parallel the comments were analysed by emotional coding to identify the levels of expressed anger. The results showed a wide variety of prosocial stances associated with these loci in online arguments within real sentences. Prosocial commenters can use words as weapons toward proself commenters to win their ‘crusade’ when they are flamed, and they are ‘cold’ when they focus on recipient and consequences. Finally, results suggested that a dialogue between prosocial and proself positions can occur in the presence of a moderate level of anger.

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How are gestures used by politicians? A multimodal co-gesture analysis

Trotta¹,

Guarasci²

2021

ijcol

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Gestures are an inseparable part of the language system (McNeill 2005;Kendon 2004), they are semantically co-expressive with speech serving different semantic functions to accompany oral modality (Lin 2017;McNeill 2016). To study these phenomena, we analyse the co-gesture behavior of several Italian politicians during face-to-face interviews. We add a new annotation layer to the PoliModal corpus (Trotta et al. 2020) focused on semantic function of hand movements (Lin 2017;Colletta et al. 2015;Kendon 2004). Then, we explore the patterns of co-occurrence of speech and gestures for the single politicians and from a party perspective. In particular, we address following research questions: i) Are there categories of verbs that systematically accompany hand movements in political interviews? ii) Since the corpus used presents an annotation of "speech constants" (Voghera 2001), is the Lexical Retrieval hypothesis confirmed or are gestures used in correlation with other and different constants of speech? The Lexical Retrieval hypothesis assumes that (a) gesturing occurs during hesitation pauses or in pauses before words indicating problems with lexical retrieval (Dittmann and Llewellyn 1969;Butterworth and Beattie 1978), and (b) that the inability to gesture can cause verbal disfluencies. Finally, we analyse semantic patterns of gesture-speech relationship.

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Discrediting Body. A Multimodal Strategy to Spoil the Other’s Image

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

The multimodal construction of political personae through the strategic management of semiotic resources of emotion expression

The multimodal construction of political personae through the strategic management of semiotic resources of emotion expression

Online moral struggles in hosting immigrant’s discourses

How are gestures used by politicians? A multimodal co-gesture analysis

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