Humble Voices in Political Communication: A Speech Analysis Across Two Cultures

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 11620 LNCS, Issue , 2019, Pages 361-374

  D’Errico, Francesca ^a   Niebuhr, Oliver ^b   Poggi, Isabella ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Humility; Multimodal communication; Speech analysis; Voice

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMILITY; MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS; MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATIONS; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PERSUASIVE COMPUTING; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; PROSODIC FEATURES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85069157879     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24296-1_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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