Conflict and Multimodal Communication (eBook)

Theoretical approaches to conflict.- The cognition of conflict: ontology, dynamics and ideology.- Group conflict as social contradiction.- On stages of Conflict Escalation.- Revenge and conflict: social and cognitive aspects.- Competition and cooperation in language evolution: a comparison between communication of apes and humans.- The Price of Being Social. The Role of Emotions in Feeding and Minimizing Conflicts.- Argumentation and conflict .- Arguments, conflicts and decisions.- Common ground or conceptual reframing? A Study of the Common Elements in Conflicting Positions in French Interactions.- Disaffiliation and Pragmatic Strategies of Emotive Communication in a Multiparty Online Conflict Talk.- Communication of aggression and aggressive communication.- Giving Voice to Silence: A Study of State Violence in Bolzaneto Prison during the Genoa G8 Summit.- The rhetoric of conflict inside and outside the stadium: The case study of an Italian Football Cheer Group.- Some Puzzles of Politeness and Impoliteness within a Formal Semantics of offensive Language.- Direct and indirect verbal and bodily insults, and other forms of aggressive communication.- Emotions and Multimodal Communication in Conflict.- Multimodal Analysis of Low Stakes Conflicts: A Proposal of a Dynamic Model .- Rhetorics of Truthfulness in the battle between social attributions and empathic emotions..- Social Behaviour in Police Interviews: Relating Data to Theories.- From personalization to parrhesia: A multimodal analysis of autobiographical recalls in Barack Obama’s political speech.- Technologies for conflict detection and simulation.- Detecting Speech Interruptions for Automatic Conflict Detection.- Be At Odds? - Deep and Hierarchical Neural Networks for Classification and Regression of Conflict in Speech.- Conflict Cues in Call Centre Interactions.- Serious Games for Teaching Conflict Resolution: Modeling Conflict Dynamics.