Research over the past four decades has built a convincing case that co‐speech hand
gestures play a powerful role in human cognition. However, this recent focus on the …

Abstract The former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was one of the most charismatic speakers of the
past decades. However, there is, as yet, no detailed quantitative profile of his way of …

Computational technologies have revolutionized the archival sciences field, prompting new
approaches to process the extensive data in these collections. Automatic speech recognition …

Virtual humans need to be persuasive in order to promote behaviour change in human
users. While several studies have focused on understanding the numerous aspects that …

This paper presented a multimodal discourse analysis of some visual images in the political
rally discourse of 2011 electioneering campaigns in Southwestern Nigeria. The data …

Gestures accompany our speech in ways that punctuate, augment, substitute for, and even
contradict verbal information. Such co-speech gestures draw listeners' attention to specific …

An online survey (N= 210) is presented on how the perceived utility of correct and
exaggerated countermeasures against Covid-19 is affected by different pronominalization …

This chapter defines social signals as communicative or informative signals that directly or
indirectly provide meanings concerning social interactions, social attitudes, social …

Nonverbal Communication in Political Debates presents a framework for understanding and
analyzing the multiple ways that nonverbal behavior functions in political debates. In …

In political persuasion, the persuader, besides bearing logical arguments and triggering
emotions, must present one's own image (one's ethos) of a credible and reliable person, by …