The Role of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior in Televised Political Debates

Grebelsky-Lichtman, Tsfira

doi:10.1080/15377857.2014.959688

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“…Debates can involve one debater being asked questions to which they respond perhaps including audience questions (much like an individual interview), or can involve more people either answering questions or having a multi-lateral discussion (much like a group workshop discussion). Either way, the aim of the debater is twofold: to support and promote the strengths of their own position; and to challenge the opposing view and undermine that argument (Grebelsky-Lichtman, 2015). Debates encourage viewers' engagement with politics (Gottfried, Hardy, Holbert, Winneg & Jamieson, 2016), increase viewers' knowledge (Benoit, Hansen & Verser, 2003) and may influence undecided voters, change voters' positions, and encourage non-voters to vote (Grebelsky-Lichtman, 2015).…”

Section: Soft or To Analyse Debatesmentioning

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Why did Brexit happen? Using causal mapping to analyse secondary, longitudinal data

Shaw

Smith

2017

European Journal of Operational Research

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The outcome of the UK's referendum on whether the UK should leave or remain in the European Union (so-called Brexit) came as a jolt to many across Europe. In this paper, we use causal mapping from soft OR to analyse longitudinal data from nine televised Brexit debates spread across the 4 weeks leading up to the referendum. We analyse these causal maps to build one view on why Brexit happened. The maps are analysed for the breadth, depth and consistency of arguments in the debate and, broadly, finds that the Leave campaign focused more consistently on a smaller set of campaign themes, contributed more detail to those themes, and focused on their own core issues rather than being diverted onto Remain strongholds. In contrast, Remain shared more information but across a broader range of themes (meaning they were less consistent), and followed Leave into themes that were clearly not their core battleground. The novelties for soft OR in this paper include: the difficulties of building and validating causal maps from secondary data; new techniques for analysing a group of causal maps to uncover the properties of arguments that spread longitudinally through a campaign; a methodology for a teaching case using publicly availability data; linking the paper, philosophically, to critical realism given the unique dataset. Finally, we identify differences in the Leave and Remain debate campaigns to offer one answer to the question 'Why did Brexit happen?'.

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Section: Soft or To Analyse Debatesmentioning

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Why did Brexit happen? Using causal mapping to analyse secondary, longitudinal data

Shaw

Smith

2017

European Journal of Operational Research

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“…The present study expands the theoretical perspective of the integrated communication approach (Buck and VanLear, 2002; Grebelsky-Lichtman, 2015; Jones and LeBaron, 2002) via the analysis of captive videos, emphasizing the importance of visual expressions combined with the typically brief verbal utterances and the mutual relations between them. The unique contribution of this study is its visual–verbal framework to genre analysis, suggesting a generic identity (Kress and Van Leeuwen, 1996; Labov, 1999; Mittell, 2001).…”

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“…For example, gestures appropriate to content . Gestures comprise another guide to the reliability of the messages conveyed in the videos (Grebelsky-Lichtman, 2015). The appropriateness to content is expressed primarily in nonverbal illustrative gestures (Ekman and Freisen, 1969), specifically head and hand movements that demonstratively reinforce the verbal message.…”

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Speaking under duress: visual and verbal elements of personal and political messages in captive videos

Grebelsky-Lichtman

Cohen

2017

Visual Communication

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Videos of living captives presented in the media are extremely influential and have broad implications even beyond the boundaries of the countries involved in the depicted events. This study is the first to present a comprehensive analysis of the visual and verbal contents of captive videos. This analysis of eleven videos of captives involved in seven abductions in three countries between 1986 and 2014 describes recurring media patterns, both visual and verbal, and suggests the functions they perform. Based on a multi-layered theoretical and analytical framework, the analysis reveals a unique genre consisting of four polar opposites reflecting both personal and political messages: visibility vs concealment, free expression vs scripted and coercive text, collective memory vs public agenda, and newsworthiness vs culture. The study delineates their unique co-existence in the generic identity.

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“…This criticism was conveyed by BPN to TKN to advice by prohibiting the avoidance of victims of technology for foreign interests. Next, criticism in the data (7) in the form improvement to fix errors by including alternative actions, with a statement "Pak Jokowi ya sudah menekankan sekarang pada kesejahteraan umum dengan mendistribusikan" …. It means, Jokowi has improved performance compared to the previous president, such as village distribution and upgrading, smart Indonesia cards, Indonesian college planning cards, pre-employment cards and alignments on natural resource negotiations.…”

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The Criticizing Strategies by the National Campaign Team (TKN) and the National Winning Agency (BPN) in the 2019 Presidential Election Debate

Rahmadani¹,

Agustina²

2020

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA-2019)

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This research was motivated by the dominant use of criticism by TKN and BPN in the 2019 Presidential Election Debate. Therefore, this research aims to: (1) uncover the types of criticizing strategies used by TKN and BPN, and (2) to explain and describe the use of criticizing strategies in the 2019 Presidential Election Debate. The source of this research data was the verbal utterances sourced from the 2019 Presidential Election Debate video. The data was collected by downloading the debate video on YouTube, then it was transcribed. Based on the listening and the note technique, TKN and BPN's utterances which were criticized were identified, then it was classified and analyzed based on the research objectives. Based on the results of the data analysis, it was found that the TKN and BPN used three types of criticizing strategies, namely direct, indirect, and mixed criticism. From the 182 data found, there were 107 data which were direct criticism, 64 data which were indirect criticism, and 11 data which were mixed criticism. The use of direct strategy is more dominant, in three main forms, which were negative evaluation, statement of the problem, and rejection. Therefore, the criticizing strategy used by TKN and BPN in the 2019 Presidential Election Debate is more explicit in the forthright form, so that it looks more accentuating the lack of opponents, even dropping the opponents; on the other hand, it further reveals the greatness of the party itself, so that it is impressed to take political advantage.

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The Role of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior in Televised Political Debates

Cited by 17 publications

References 50 publications

Why did Brexit happen? Using causal mapping to analyse secondary, longitudinal data

Why did Brexit happen? Using causal mapping to analyse secondary, longitudinal data

Speaking under duress: visual and verbal elements of personal and political messages in captive videos

The Criticizing Strategies by the National Campaign Team (TKN) and the National Winning Agency (BPN) in the 2019 Presidential Election Debate

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