Open AccessLeft/Right Polarity in Gestures and Politics
Author(s) -
Nicolae Sorin Drăgan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
romanian journal of communication and public relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.175
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2344-5440
pISSN - 1454-8100
DOI - 10.21018/rjcpr.2018.3.265
Subject(s) - gesture , semiotics , politics , multimodality , meaning (existential) , left and right , polarity (international relations) , presidential system , political communication , nonverbal communication , annotation , sociology , orientation (vector space) , political science , biology and political orientation , linguistics , communication , epistemology , computer science , artificial intelligence , law , biology , philosophy , genetics , geometry , mathematics , structural engineering , cell , engineering
In this article we investigate how political actors involved in TV debates during the 2009 and 2014 presidential elections in Romania manage the relationship between handedness (left/right polarity in hand gestures) and political orientation (left/right polarity in politics),. For this purpose we developed a multimodal analysis for some relevant sequences during these debates. The practice of integrating the meanings of different semiotic resources allows a better understanding of the meaning of verbal discourse, actions and behavior of political actors involved in a particular communication situation. In addition, the Multimodal Professional Analysis Tool, ELAN, allows the annotation and dynamic analysis of the semiotic behavior of the political actors involved in the analyzed sequences.