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The Partiality in Italian Political Interviews: Stereotype or Reality?

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This contribution has two aims closely related. The first one is to assess toughness and partiality of the main Italian political broadcasts analysing interruptions which occur during the interviews. Interruptions can be considered a conversational index according to the theory of equivocation. Results show that more than the half of the studied broadcasts are “tough” and that many public opinion’s beliefs are true with some surprising exceptions. The second aim is to design an interactive multimedia software for coding interruptions from the interruption coding system applied to our sample and from the obtained results. Indications are drawn to implement this software.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100, Caserta, Italy

    Enza Graziano & Augusto Gnisci

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  1. Dept. of Psychology and IIASS, International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Second University of Naples, Vietri sul Mare, SA, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

  3. Department of Telecommunication and Media Informatics, Laboratory of Speech Acoustics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1117, Budapest, Hungary

    Klára Vicsi

  4. TELECOM ParisTech, CNRS-LTCI UMR 5141, 75014, Paris, France

    Catherine Pelachaud

  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Anton Nijholt

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Graziano, E., Gnisci, A. (2011). The Partiality in Italian Political Interviews: Stereotype or Reality?. In: Esposito, A., Vinciarelli, A., Vicsi, K., Pelachaud, C., Nijholt, A. (eds) Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment. The Processing Issues. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25775-9_33

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