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05993015 Graziano, Enza Gnisci, Augusto The partiality in italian political interviews: Stereotype or reality? Esposito, Anna (ed.) et al., Analysis of verbal and nonverbal communication and enactment. The processing issues. COST 2102 international conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 7--10, 2010. Revised selected papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-25774-2/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6800, 355-367 (2011). 2011 Berlin: Springer EN Interruptions Software Political interviews Toughness Partiality

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-25775-9_33

Summary: 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.