Media Aggression and Political Discourse

Emotions and political aggression 1 Intergroup emotions and political aggression : The ANCODI hypothesis

This paper examines the role of anger, contempt, and disgust in intergroup political aggression through what we have called the ANCODI hypothesis (Matsumoto, Hwang, & Frank, 2012, 2013). The ANCODI hypothesis argues that anger, contempt and disgust are a volatile emotional mix that contributes to intergroup aggression and violence through the ability of anger to motivate, of contempt to devalue...

Vagueness in Political Discourse

The paper presents two studies on vagueness in political discourse. The first is a qualitative analysis of the commonsense definition of vagueness and related notions in political discourse. Participants were submitted two fragments of real political argumentations and a questionnaire asking to rate them as to vagueness, sincerity, persuasiveness and other criteria. They showed that two aspects...

The Media and the Law and Order Myth in American Political Discourse

A significant topic in American political discourse is that of law and order. Politicians, civic leaders, and policy makers often propose a hard-line towards crime so that “law and order” is maintained. In this essay, I contend that the discourse of “law and order” has taken on mythic properties in American political discourse, and that the media, in large part, has contributed to the creation ...

Mass Media and Political

Persuasive gaze in political discourse

The paper investigates the use of gaze in political communication. A study is presented on the electoral debates of two politicians in Italy and France. Fragments of their verbal discourse were analysed in terms of their hierarchy of goals, and their gaze communication was described and classified in terms of the persuasive strategies they pursue, logos, ethos or pathos. The results show that t...