The present study aimed at analyzing the communication of Certainty and Uncertainty in a corpus of Italian political speeches pre-election rallies and parliamentary speeches broadcast on television. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of the corpus shows that 1 in both kinds of speech the communication of Certainty clearly prevails over the Uncertainty; 2 the latter, even if it is at a low level, is slightly higher in parliamentary speeches than in pre-election rallies; 3 in the whole corpus a contraposition constantly occurs also between Good/Evil and True/False: every speaker, regardless of his faction, describes his own party as positive and truthful Good and True and the opposition party as negative and untruthful Evil and False.
['Ramona Bongelli', 'Ilaria Riccioni', 'Andrzej Zuczkowski']
Certain-Uncertain, True-False, Good-Evil in Italian Political Speeches