Political Leaders’ Communicative Style and Audience Evaluation in an Italian General Election Debate

Maricchiolo, Fridanna; Gnisci, Augusto; Bonaiuto, Marino

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41545-6_10

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“…The picture for debates in European states is less clear-cut. For some European countries the impact of debates seems to be rather limited (e.g., Maricchiolo et al 2010), whereas studies for other countries suggest that debates are more persuasive. For instance, it has been demonstrated that almost one fifth of the Croatian voters changed their voting intention after the 2005 debates (Skoko 2005).…”

Section: Electoral Competition and Eu Support: Insights From Researchmentioning

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This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries

Maier

Faas²,

Rittberger³

et al. 2017

Journal of European Public Policy

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For the very first time in EU history, the 2014 EP elections provided citizens with the opportunity to influence the nomination of the Commission President by casting a vote for the main Europarties' 'lead candidates'. By subjecting the position of the Commission President to an open political contest, many experts have formulated the expectation that heightened political competition would strengthen the weak electoral connection between EU citizens and EU legislators, which some consider a root cause for the EU's lack of public support. In particular, this contest was on display in the so-called 'Eurovision Debate', a televised debate between the main contenders for the Commission President broadcasted live across Europe. Drawing on a quasi-experimental study conducted in 24 EU countries, we find that debate exposure led to increased cognitive and political involvement and EU support among young citizens. Unfortunately, the debate has only reached a very small audience.

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Section: Electoral Competition and Eu Support: Insights From Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries

Maier

Faas²,

Rittberger³

et al. 2017

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…The percentage of ideational gestures is very low if compared with that of studies in which gestures were coded with no regard to coordination with linguistic features. In these studies, in fact, the distribution shows a frequency of ideational gestures above 50% [15] or at least 23% [16].…”

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Coordination between Markers, Repairs and Hand Gestures in Political Interviews

Gnisci

Pace

Palomba

2015

Advances in Neural Networks: Computational and Theoretical Issues

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Abstract. This study aims at exploring the coordination of linguistic features (markers and repairs) with hand gestures, assuming that this concerns rhythm and cohesion of the discourse, rather than the semantic content. Two independent observers coded a sample of 29 broadcasts "Tribuna Politica" (10h 28m) during the campaign of 2004 European elections in Italy. Descriptive data showed that: meta-textual markers were used more than interactive ones; repairs were equally subdivided into modifications and repetitions; conversational gestures (i.e., rhythmic and cohesive) and adaptors were used more than ideational gestures. Correlations between markers/repairs and gestures revealed that these linguistic features are prevalently associated to conversational gestures and adaptors. Probably, when the conversation is fluid, markers and repairs are coordinated with conversational gestures in order to accompany the flow of speech; when the conversation is blocked, they are coordinated with adaptors in order to re-establish the previous flow.

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“…[27]; [28]) show how a high frequency of self-adaptor gestures, as opposed to illustrators, lowers the persuasiveness of the Speaker. But these studies do not explicitly link heightened or lacking efficacy to the specific meanings of gestures, while the reason why a politician using many self-adaptors is not very persuasive might reside in their conveying a need for self-reassurance, hence an impression of low charisma.…”

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

D’Errico

Poggi

Vincze

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In political persuasion the persuader, beside bearing logical arguments and triggering emotions, must present one's own image (one's ethos) of a credible and reliable person, by enhancing three dimensions of it: competence, benevolence and dominance. In a parallel way, s/he may cast discredit on the opponent by criticizing, accusing or insulting on the same three dimensions. The work provides a description and a typology of multimodal discrediting moves focusing on the discrediter's multimodal behavior. Based on an Italian corpus of political debates the analysis points out which facial expressions, gaze behavior, gestures, postures and prosodic features are used to convey discredit concerning the three target features of competence, benevolence and dominance. The qualitative study of discredit signals highlights the close relation with emotions and in this sense particular attention is given to them as triggers of the Audience's evaluation

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Political Leaders’ Communicative Style and Audience Evaluation in an Italian General Election Debate

Cited by 6 publications

References 44 publications

This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries

This time it’s different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on young citizens and its consequence for EU democracy – evidence from a quasi-experiment in 24 countries

Coordination between Markers, Repairs and Hand Gestures in Political Interviews

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

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