Abstract
The chapter outlines a model of insult in terms of a socio-cognitive view of multimodal communication. After setting it apart from other types of aggressive communication, like curse, imprecation and bad words, it explores its social and emotional causes and effects in everyday life and political communication, and finally proposes a semantic and pragmatic analysis of direct and indirect, verbal and bodily insults in Italian political talk shows and social media.
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All our examples are taken from communicative acts by, toward, or between Italian politicians.
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Our verbal examples are mostly taken from the corpus of D’Errico et al. (2014), drawn from the blog and Facebook page of Beppe Grillo, the head of the Italian political movement Movimento 5 Stelle. The examples in italics are real.
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Poggi, I., D’Errico, F., Vincze, L. (2015). Direct and Indirect Verbal and Bodily Insults and Other Forms of Aggressive Communication. In: D'Errico, F., Poggi, I., Vinciarelli, A., Vincze, L. (eds) Conflict and Multimodal Communication. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14081-0_13
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