This study analyzes the political agenda of the European Parliament (EP) plenary, how it has evolved over time, and the manner in which Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have reacted to external and internal stimuli when making plenary speeches. To unveil the plenary agenda and detect latent themes in legislative speeches over time, MEP speech content is analyzed using a new dynamic top...

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...

Abstract This paper describes a large-scale bilingual corpus of spoken monologues and their simultaneous interpretation, which has been constructed at CIAIR. The corpus has the following characteristics: (1) English and Japanese speeches are recorded in parallel, (2) the data contains monologue speeches such as lecture and self-introduction, and (3) the exact beginning and ending times are prov...

Available online 2 February 2011 The purpose of thepaper is to investigatewhetherpeople consider someone a charismatic speaker because they are deploying the generic features commonly identified as being associated with charismatic oratory in the literature, or whether the attribution of charisma is informed by factors which vary across different settings. Video-taped extracts from speeches giv...

The first time I heard about Dr. Paul Farmer was when he was asked to give the commencement speech at Boston College in 2005. As a newcomer to Boston that year, I was not yet familiar with Dr. Farmer's educational history in the city (earning a Ph.D. and M.D. at nearby Harvard University) or with his endeavors creating Partners in Health (PIH) many years before. A friend was kind enough to give...

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This article focuses its attention on the functioning of biblical motifs in American fiction and their penetration public speeches non-fiction through literary journalism techniques. The findings this work illustrate that religious lexicon as a whole have been used steadily all U.S presidents. Taking into account majority Americans (73%) relates to Christians, belong important rhetorical stylis...