Multimodal Behaviour and Interlocutor Identification in Political Debates

TY - GEN

T1 - Multimodal Behaviour and Interlocutor Identification in Political Debates

AU - Navarretta, Costanza

AU - Paggio, Patrizia

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - The paper deals with the identification of interlocutors via speech and gestures in annotated televised political debates. The analysis of an American and a British debate shows that two of the politicians succeeded better than their political adversaries in identifying their various interlocutors. Since the same two politicians were also judged to be the winners of the debates in several opinion polls, our data can be said to confirm earlier claims that the correct identification of the interlocutor is important for succeeding in communication, particularly in televised political debates, during which politicians address several interlocutors in the physical room where the debates take place as well as outside of it.

AB - The paper deals with the identification of interlocutors via speech and gestures in annotated televised political debates. The analysis of an American and a British debate shows that two of the politicians succeeded better than their political adversaries in identifying their various interlocutors. Since the same two politicians were also judged to be the winners of the debates in several opinion polls, our data can be said to confirm earlier claims that the correct identification of the interlocutor is important for succeeding in communication, particularly in televised political debates, during which politicians address several interlocutors in the physical room where the debates take place as well as outside of it.

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-3-642-41544-9

VL - 7688

SP - 99

EP - 113

BT - Multimodal Communication in Political Speech. Shaping Minds and Social Action

A2 - Poggi, Isabella

A2 - D'Errico, Francesca

A2 - Vincze, Laura

A2 - Vinciarelli, Alessandro

PB - Springer Science+Business Media

ER -