Verbal and Non-verbal Markers for the Analysis of Political Discourse

The paper describes a linguistic analysis performed over a corpus of Italian political speeches annotated through nonverbal tags. With the purpose to locate lexical features correlated with non-verbal phenomena, we exploited a set of electronic dictionaries of simple and compounds words and a network of Local Grammars. A Distributional Analysis of the texts has, then, been carried out in order to automatically explore the corpus.