Isabella Poggi

Poggi, Isabella 2017 Chapter 10. The “seeds” of charisma: Multimodal rhetoric of Mussolini’s discourse Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres, Tseronis, Assimakis and Charles Forceville (eds.), pp. 263–290 | Chapter

Given its role in leaders’ persuasive skills, “charisma” is a relevant field for multimodal rhetoric. This chapter investigates Mussolini’s charisma in his speeches and multimodal communication. According to a socio-cognitive model, charisma is a set of a person’s internal features, manifested by… read more

Allwood, Jens, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Isabella Poggi, Laura Vincze and Francesca D’Errico 2014 Vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation. Cognitive and lexical aspects in English, Swedish, and Italian Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 265–284 | Article

This paper investigates the cognitive and semantic nature of vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation (vagueness related phenomena) by examining some of the linguistic expressions connected with these phenomena in English, Swedish and Italian. Certain mental states during discourse production… read more

Poggi, Isabella 2011 Chapter 25. Music and leadership: The choir conductor’s multimodal communication Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale and Mika Ishino (eds.), pp. 341–354 | Chapter

This chapter views the choir conductor as the leader of a cooperative group, whose role is not simply to provide technical instruction, but also to motivate singers, provide feedback, express the pleasure of music. It assumes that every choir conductor pursues a specific plan of action and that… read more

Poggi, Isabella 2008 Iconicity in different types of gestures Dimensions of gesture, Kendon, Adam † and Tommaso Russo Cardona (eds.), pp. 45–61 | Article

The paper presents a framework for classifying gestures in terms of different parameters, and shows that the parameter of iconicity cuts across that of cognitive construction, which distinguishes codified gestures — those represented in memory as stable signal–meaning pairs — from creative ones —… read more

Ruttkay, Zsófia, Catherine Pelachaud, Isabella Poggi and Han Noot 2008 9. Exercises in style for virtual humans Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction, Cañamero, Lola and Ruth Aylett (eds.), pp. 143–160 | Article

Poggi, Isabella 2005 The goals of persuasion Pragmatics & Cognition 13:2, pp. 297–335 | Article

This paper presents a model of persuasion in terms of goals and beliefs. Among the various ways to influence people, that is, to raise or lower the likelihood for them to pursue some goal, ranging from threat to suggestion, persuasion is viewed as a case of communicative non-coercive goal hooking.… read more

Poggi, Isabella 2002 Symbolic gestures: The case of the Italian gestionary Gesture 2:1, pp. 71–98 | Article

The paper describes some aspects of symbolic gestures, by providing examples from the Italian symbolic gestures, the autonomous culturally codified gestures used by Italian hearing people in everyday communication. It shows how the signal, the meaning and the norms of use of each gesture can be… read more

Poggi, Isabella 2002 The lexicon of the Conductor’s face Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999, Mc Kevitt, Paul, Seán Ó Nualláin and Conn Mulvihill (eds.), pp. 271–284 | Article

Poggi, Isabella and Catherine Pelachaud 2002 Signals and meanings of gaze in animated faces Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999, Mc Kevitt, Paul, Seán Ó Nualláin and Conn Mulvihill (eds.), pp. 133–144 | Article

Magno Caldognetto, Emanuela and Isabella Poggi 1995 Creative Iconic Gestures: some Evidence from Aphasics Iconicity in Language, Simone, Raffaele (ed.), pp. 257 ff. | Article

Castelfranchi, Cristiano and Isabella Poggi 1987 13. Communication: Beyond the cognitive approach and speech act theory The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference, Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (eds.), pp. 239 ff. | Chapter

Poggi, Isabella, Cristiano Castelfranchi and Domenico Parisi 1981 Answers, replies and reactions Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino, July 8–14, 1979, Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 569 ff. | Article

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