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Political Speech: Multimodal Communication to Shape Minds and Social Action

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Political discourse has been a subject for the study of communication since the very beginning of western philosophical speculation: [1], Sophists, and the first studies in rhetoric find their roots in Greek democracy, with its need to elaborate and teach techniques for reasoning and argumentation. Later, if [2] set the stage for research in argumentation for the next centuries, [3] and [4] also took into account body communication as an important part of the Orator’s repertoire, by focusing on the use of gestures, voice, posture, gaze and facial expression.

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  1. Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo, Università Roma Tre, 00146, Rome, Italy

    Isabella Poggi

  2. Faculty of Psychology, Uninettuno International Telematic University (Utiu), 00186, Rome, Italy

    Francesca D’Errico

  3. Department of Education, Università Roma Tre, 00146, Rome, Italy

    Laura Vincze

  4. Computer Science, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

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Poggi, I., D’Errico, F., Vincze, L., Vinciarelli, A. (2013). Introduction. In: Poggi, I., D’Errico, F., Vincze, L., Vinciarelli, A. (eds) Multimodal Communication in Political Speech. Shaping Minds and Social Action. PS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41545-6_1

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