Multimodal Communication in Political Speech. Shaping Minds and Social Action [electronic resource] : International Workshop, Political Speech 2010, Rome, Italy, November 10-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Isabella Poggi, Francesca D'Errico, Laura Vincze, Alessandro Vinciarelli.

Introduction -- The Orator -- Multimodal Indicators of Persuasion in Political Interviews -- Towards a Political Action -- An Ethnographic Investigation into Gender and Language in the Northern Ireland Assembly -- Intonation in Political Speech: Ségolène Royal vs. Nicolas Sarkozy -- A Diachronic Analysis of Face-to-Face Discussions: Berlusconi, from 1994 to 2010 -- The Audience -- Counterfactual Communication in Politics: Features and Effects on Voters -- The New Release of CORPS:
 a Corpus of Political Speeches Annotated with Audience Reactions -- Multimodal Behaviour and Interlocutor Identification in Political Debates -- Political Leaders' Communicative Style and Audience Evaluation in an Italian General Election Debate -- The Discourse: Contents -- Sometimes I, Sometimes Me: A Study on the Use of Autobiographical Memories in Two Political Speeches by Barack Obama -- Communicating Politics. A Study on the Representations of the 2008 Electoral Campaign in the Italian Daily Press -- Certain-Uncertain, True-False, Good-Evil in Italian Political Speeches -- Discrediting Body. A Multimodal Strategy to Spoil the Other's Image -- Racism and Immigration in Social Advertisings Promoted by Italian Government and Non-governmental Institutions -- The Discourse: Structures -- Politolinguistics. Towards a New Analysis of Political Discourse -- Linguistic Factors in Political Speech -- Fallacies as Argumentative Devices in Political Debates -- Sprinkled Metonymies in the Analysis of Political Discourse with Corpus Linguistics Techniques: a Case Study.