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Papers by Gonen Dori-Hacohen
Pragmatics, Jul 6, 2022
Schegloff described utterances such as "lemme ask you a question" as pre-questions, pre-pre's or ... more Schegloff described utterances such as "lemme ask you a question" as pre-questions, pre-pre's or predelicates (Schegloff 1980). This paper provides a discussion of similar utterances in a specific institutional setting-political radio phone-in programs in Israel. The participants use these utterances in ways that are similar to Schegloff's description. Yet, the pre-construction has additional institutional functions for the differing roles of the host and the caller. Hosts use these utterances to manage the interaction during overlaps as a means to secure an exclusive turn of talk following them. Callers use them infrequently at the beginning of their talk as story-prompts. Hosts may challenge this usage and the interactional role reversal. Regular callers can use the pre-constructions similarly to hosts. In this way, the pre-constructions in the Israeli radio phone-in programs are employed as interactional practices that relate and construct the roles in this institutional setting.
Contrastive Pragmatics
We look at long lists (i.e., longer than three parts) in political discourse, especially in talk ... more We look at long lists (i.e., longer than three parts) in political discourse, especially in talk shows from three cultures, the U.S., Pakistan, and the Netherlands, and ask how a long list is accomplished. Long lists are routinely produced in political discourse by extending the typical three-part list. The listing process to create a long list can happen in many ways, explicitly via counting verbally or physically and implicitly through other resources. These resources can also be used to project a list in advance and to create one retrospectively. Last, listing in politics creates two problems for the lister, requiring an artful application of the available listing resources. The audience may orient to only three parts, and the politician is faced with selecting the last item. Thus, we show that politicians use lists to structure their talk, but they also have to anticipate problems regarding the practice of listing.
We explore employment of the Hebrew construction (\u27ani) lo yode\u27a / lo yoda\u27at (lit ‘[I]... more We explore employment of the Hebrew construction (\u27ani) lo yode\u27a / lo yoda\u27at (lit ‘[I] not M/F-SG.know’), roughly equivalent to English ‘I don’t know’, by callers and hosts in 80 interactions on Israeli political radio phonein programs, as compared with its functions in casual conversation. Five uses were attested in the corpus of radio phone-ins and correlated with the syntactic form of complementation (if available) for each token of the construction: (i) expressing literal lack of knowledge; (ii) expressing epistemic stance of uncertainty / hedging; (iii) gaining cognitive processing time in the midst of self-repair; (iv) expressing affective stance of contempt or criticism; and (v) avoidance strategies. While most of these uses are common to both genres, some are unattested in casual conversation. By exploring the functions of the (\u27ani) lo yode\u27a / lo yoda\u27at construction and their distribution according to institutional role, the study (i) sheds further lig...
Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders
Background: The study investigates how clinicians achieve balance between the needs of the instit... more Background: The study investigates how clinicians achieve balance between the needs of the institution and the promotion of the child’s agency and volition. Method: Our data are taken from the opening segments of 16 sessions recorded by 8 speech clinicians during their meetings with 11 children with some form of speech and language disorder. We focus on four segments, and our analysis is based on the combined insights of three approaches to the analysis of talk: conversation analysis (CA), dialogic syntax (DS), and discourse pragmatics (DP). Results: The extended and integrated analyses of the segments illustrate different ways in which the clinicians and the children negotiate intersubjectivity in the speech-language therapy (SLT) session, focusing on the use of the verb for ‘to want’ in Hebrew. Discussion and conclusion: The study demonstrates that while clinicians may perceive their action of employing question constructions with the verb for ‘to want’ as addressing the interlocu...
This chapter explores the Hebrew anaxnu (‘we’) in Israeli political radio phone-in programs. Usin... more This chapter explores the Hebrew anaxnu (‘we’) in Israeli political radio phone-in programs. Using the ‘we,’ participants create or refer to seven social groups: the conversation ‘we’; the program ‘we’; the delimited social ‘we’; the opposing general ‘we’, the open general ‘we’; the humanity ‘we’; and the vocal ‘we’. The functions of ‘we’ differ by participant: hosts use the conversation ‘we’ to manage interactions whereas callers use the general ‘we’ to create a public sphere. Using an extended excerpt, we illustrate a variant of the “fluidity of ‘we’” and its significance to the participants’ identity-displays. The first person plural therefore creates social groups in media interactions, both on the micro and macro societal levels.
This article discusses interactions on Israeli political radio phone-in programs between Jewish-I... more This article discusses interactions on Israeli political radio phone-in programs between Jewish-Israeli hosts, Arab Israeli citizens, and Arab non-citizen Palestinians. The position of most Arab non-Jew callers is complicated by their status as a non-uniform minority in Israel, and they deemed as "other" by many Jewish-Israelis. These programs serve as a vehicle for Bedouin and Druze callers to complain about their discrimination, and they often receive agreement and support from the interlocutor Jewish-Israeli show hosts. In interactions between Israeli hosts and Palestinians from the territories callers, however, the host and the Palestinian caller each present their respective nationalist views in a manner resembling an intractable conflict. Such mainstream Jewish-Israeli interactions with the "other" reflect the boundaries of the Israeli imagined community. While providing information to the mainstream about "internal minority" others, the interactions usually fail to build bridges with the "adjoining externalized others," who lie outside it.
Schegloff described utterances such as “lemme ask you a question ” as pre-questions, pre-pre’s or... more Schegloff described utterances such as “lemme ask you a question ” as pre-questions, pre-pre’s or pre-delicates (Schegloff 1980). This paper provides a discussion of similar utterances in a specific institutional setting- political radio phone-in programs in Israel. The participants use these utterances in ways that are similar to Schegloff's description. Yet, the pre-construction has additional institutional functions for the differing roles of the host and the caller. Hosts use these utterances to manage the interaction during overlaps as a means to secure an exclusive turn of talk following them. Callers use them infrequently at the beginning of their talk as story-prompts. Hosts may challenge this usage and the interactional role reversal. Regular callers can use the pre-constructions similarly to hosts. In this way, the pre-constructions in the Israeli radio phone-in programs are employed as interactional practices that relate and construct the roles in this institutional ...
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
The existence of a coevolutionary process between avian brood parasites and their hosts predicts ... more The existence of a coevolutionary process between avian brood parasites and their hosts predicts a lower intra-clutch variation in egg appearance of host eggs among rejecters as this would favor egg discrimination of parasite eggs by hosts once parasitic egg mimicry had evolved. So far empirical tests of this prediction have ignored the fact that different aspects of host egg phenotypes may differ in the relative role of environmental vs. genetic determination, and hence that the role of intra-clutch variation in egg rejection within a population cannot be invariant. Here, we estimated whether the intra-clutch variation in several aspects of host eggshell features is consistently associated to rejection of parasitic foreign eggs across years in a magpie host population parasitized by great spotted cuckoos. We innovatively estimated spottiness by means of the fractal dimension of eggs, which considers the homogeneity of spot pattern complexity in eggshells. Our results show that low ...
Discourse, Context & Media, 2018
"We demonstrated how the Facebook Fan page becomes a public sphere. The creation of this... more "We demonstrated how the Facebook Fan page becomes a public sphere. The creation of this sphere would not be possible without the negotiation of fandom through fan approaches to criticism. The critical fan has various resources for maintaining fan status while criticizing either their fan-object via upward criticism or other fans in peer criticism. We also found criticism to be demonstrative of member resources — for instance, the use of web-speak for downplaying a problematic action or the use of humor or of consensus. When directed towards players or coaches, the joking tone served as a mitigating device, enabling fans to be critical affectionately. The strongest tool we demonstrated for enabling a fan to criticize, especially in upward criticism, is to join in a call for action as part of a reflexive public which has reached a consensus about the changes needed for the team to be successful. In our data, upward criticism lost its joking tone by the end of the season, and this criticism of the management became prevalent on the page. In becoming the dominant mode of addressing the management, this criticism of pleading for change from the ownership became central to the fans." P. 7
Language & Communication, 2017
Abstract This study analyzes phone interactions in Yiddish that are broadcast by telephone to ult... more Abstract This study analyzes phone interactions in Yiddish that are broadcast by telephone to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities through off-hook services called “hotlines”. Yiddish, a minority language, is the native tongue of most hotline speakers and marks their communal affiliation within the ultra-Orthodox world. We explore the instrumentalities of one Yiddish hotline in order to ascertain features that facilitate its role as a membering medium for its community. We show how participants use this medium to index who is – and who is not – a community member via language decisions that reflect language ideologies and maintain community boundaries; interviewees index their membership by linguistically accommodating interviewers; and hosts, on occasion, change language to ostracize an interviewee. We also explore the problematic status of Modern Hebrew for this community.
Discourse, Context & Media, 2017
Abstract Readers’ comments on op-eds have mostly been analyzed by researchers as cases of disagre... more Abstract Readers’ comments on op-eds have mostly been analyzed by researchers as cases of disagreement, and in the Israeli context they are further described as aggressive and abusive. These insights have been gained based on the use of offensive vocabulary and un-hedged directness. The present contribution proposes a cross-cultural examination of commenting, comparing responses to opinion editorials in the internet sites of the Washington Post and its ideologically counterpart in Israel, NRG, three op-eds for each language. To do so, we (a) introduce a coding scheme which accounts for commenting, based on a distinction between agreement/disagreement, logos-oriented vs. ethos-oriented (ad-hominem and ad-personam) comments, and literal vs. ironic keying; (b) postulate a scale of threat to negative face; and (c) compare the use of the various commenting strategies in two sets of data, the internet sites of the Washington Post for American English, and the Israeli NRG site for the Hebrew. Findings indicate (1) a higher preference for the more threatening no-logos and ad-personam comments in the NRG data as compared to the WP, (2) similarities between the two sites in the use of irony vs non-irony, with preference for ironic keying in anti-ethos as compared to anti-logos. We discuss the implications of these findings in terms of the commenting arena in the public sphere.
Javnost - The Public, 2012
Journal of Pragmatics, 2014
ABSTRACT This study describes the differing overall structural organization of political radio ph... more ABSTRACT This study describes the differing overall structural organization of political radio phone-in interactions in Israel and the USA. The American phone-in is highly organized, tightly controlled by the host, who knows and introduces the caller at the opening, and closes the interaction unilaterally. In the Israeli phone-in, the opening resembles the mundane phone call: the call-taker acts as if he responds to a summons, there are greeting sequences, and the caller has the task of self-identification, since hosts do not know with whom they talk. Closings in Israel are negotiated and include pre-closings and closing sequences. Unlike the US structure, the Israeli structure promotes non-hierarchical institutional relations between participants, akin to mundane relations, often taken as relations between equals. The conclusion connects the overall structural organizations with the communication patterns in each society, suggesting phone-ins are one site that resonates and recreates societal norms.
Discourse, Context & Media, 2013
ABSTRACT This paper presents hegemonic masculinity as it is achieved during interactions between ... more ABSTRACT This paper presents hegemonic masculinity as it is achieved during interactions between television host Jim Cramer and his callers in the “Lightening Round” segment on the CNBC television show “Mad Money”. Cramer's persona and interactions adhere to a hegemonic masculinity dominant in American culture, and they create a sphere in which it is the only normative identity possible. This hegemonic masculinity is created by the use of specific phrases (e.g. the “booyah” salutation), actions (e.g. compliments to the host), by the insertion of sports as a topic of discussion, and by Cramer's dominant positioning as an expert. After presenting these features we demonstrate how this arena creates problems for the very few female callers participating in it. We therefore conclude that the “Lightening Round” helps to construct and reproduce masculinist authority in this mass-mediated window into the world of finance.
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2014
Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2012
This article describes and discusses the production process of the leading Israeli radio phone-in... more This article describes and discusses the production process of the leading Israeli radio phone-in programme. Phone-ins are considered an arena for public participation as part of the public sphere. The researcher used ethnography and interviews to study the production process. The production team screens the participants-thus gatekeeping processes are in effect. The different agents in the production process use two main considerations to inform gatekeeping: medium-related considerations and public sphere considerations. These considerations are evident throughout the production process and in the broadcast itself. The gatekeeping process leads to limited access to public participation. The two considerations which inform the gatekeeping practices on radio are also useful when examining public participation in other media.
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2012
International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2013
Pragmatics, Jul 6, 2022
Schegloff described utterances such as "lemme ask you a question" as pre-questions, pre-pre's or ... more Schegloff described utterances such as "lemme ask you a question" as pre-questions, pre-pre's or predelicates (Schegloff 1980). This paper provides a discussion of similar utterances in a specific institutional setting-political radio phone-in programs in Israel. The participants use these utterances in ways that are similar to Schegloff's description. Yet, the pre-construction has additional institutional functions for the differing roles of the host and the caller. Hosts use these utterances to manage the interaction during overlaps as a means to secure an exclusive turn of talk following them. Callers use them infrequently at the beginning of their talk as story-prompts. Hosts may challenge this usage and the interactional role reversal. Regular callers can use the pre-constructions similarly to hosts. In this way, the pre-constructions in the Israeli radio phone-in programs are employed as interactional practices that relate and construct the roles in this institutional setting.
Contrastive Pragmatics
We look at long lists (i.e., longer than three parts) in political discourse, especially in talk ... more We look at long lists (i.e., longer than three parts) in political discourse, especially in talk shows from three cultures, the U.S., Pakistan, and the Netherlands, and ask how a long list is accomplished. Long lists are routinely produced in political discourse by extending the typical three-part list. The listing process to create a long list can happen in many ways, explicitly via counting verbally or physically and implicitly through other resources. These resources can also be used to project a list in advance and to create one retrospectively. Last, listing in politics creates two problems for the lister, requiring an artful application of the available listing resources. The audience may orient to only three parts, and the politician is faced with selecting the last item. Thus, we show that politicians use lists to structure their talk, but they also have to anticipate problems regarding the practice of listing.
We explore employment of the Hebrew construction (\u27ani) lo yode\u27a / lo yoda\u27at (lit ‘[I]... more We explore employment of the Hebrew construction (\u27ani) lo yode\u27a / lo yoda\u27at (lit ‘[I] not M/F-SG.know’), roughly equivalent to English ‘I don’t know’, by callers and hosts in 80 interactions on Israeli political radio phonein programs, as compared with its functions in casual conversation. Five uses were attested in the corpus of radio phone-ins and correlated with the syntactic form of complementation (if available) for each token of the construction: (i) expressing literal lack of knowledge; (ii) expressing epistemic stance of uncertainty / hedging; (iii) gaining cognitive processing time in the midst of self-repair; (iv) expressing affective stance of contempt or criticism; and (v) avoidance strategies. While most of these uses are common to both genres, some are unattested in casual conversation. By exploring the functions of the (\u27ani) lo yode\u27a / lo yoda\u27at construction and their distribution according to institutional role, the study (i) sheds further lig...
Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders
Background: The study investigates how clinicians achieve balance between the needs of the instit... more Background: The study investigates how clinicians achieve balance between the needs of the institution and the promotion of the child’s agency and volition. Method: Our data are taken from the opening segments of 16 sessions recorded by 8 speech clinicians during their meetings with 11 children with some form of speech and language disorder. We focus on four segments, and our analysis is based on the combined insights of three approaches to the analysis of talk: conversation analysis (CA), dialogic syntax (DS), and discourse pragmatics (DP). Results: The extended and integrated analyses of the segments illustrate different ways in which the clinicians and the children negotiate intersubjectivity in the speech-language therapy (SLT) session, focusing on the use of the verb for ‘to want’ in Hebrew. Discussion and conclusion: The study demonstrates that while clinicians may perceive their action of employing question constructions with the verb for ‘to want’ as addressing the interlocu...
This chapter explores the Hebrew anaxnu (‘we’) in Israeli political radio phone-in programs. Usin... more This chapter explores the Hebrew anaxnu (‘we’) in Israeli political radio phone-in programs. Using the ‘we,’ participants create or refer to seven social groups: the conversation ‘we’; the program ‘we’; the delimited social ‘we’; the opposing general ‘we’, the open general ‘we’; the humanity ‘we’; and the vocal ‘we’. The functions of ‘we’ differ by participant: hosts use the conversation ‘we’ to manage interactions whereas callers use the general ‘we’ to create a public sphere. Using an extended excerpt, we illustrate a variant of the “fluidity of ‘we’” and its significance to the participants’ identity-displays. The first person plural therefore creates social groups in media interactions, both on the micro and macro societal levels.
This article discusses interactions on Israeli political radio phone-in programs between Jewish-I... more This article discusses interactions on Israeli political radio phone-in programs between Jewish-Israeli hosts, Arab Israeli citizens, and Arab non-citizen Palestinians. The position of most Arab non-Jew callers is complicated by their status as a non-uniform minority in Israel, and they deemed as "other" by many Jewish-Israelis. These programs serve as a vehicle for Bedouin and Druze callers to complain about their discrimination, and they often receive agreement and support from the interlocutor Jewish-Israeli show hosts. In interactions between Israeli hosts and Palestinians from the territories callers, however, the host and the Palestinian caller each present their respective nationalist views in a manner resembling an intractable conflict. Such mainstream Jewish-Israeli interactions with the "other" reflect the boundaries of the Israeli imagined community. While providing information to the mainstream about "internal minority" others, the interactions usually fail to build bridges with the "adjoining externalized others," who lie outside it.
Schegloff described utterances such as “lemme ask you a question ” as pre-questions, pre-pre’s or... more Schegloff described utterances such as “lemme ask you a question ” as pre-questions, pre-pre’s or pre-delicates (Schegloff 1980). This paper provides a discussion of similar utterances in a specific institutional setting- political radio phone-in programs in Israel. The participants use these utterances in ways that are similar to Schegloff's description. Yet, the pre-construction has additional institutional functions for the differing roles of the host and the caller. Hosts use these utterances to manage the interaction during overlaps as a means to secure an exclusive turn of talk following them. Callers use them infrequently at the beginning of their talk as story-prompts. Hosts may challenge this usage and the interactional role reversal. Regular callers can use the pre-constructions similarly to hosts. In this way, the pre-constructions in the Israeli radio phone-in programs are employed as interactional practices that relate and construct the roles in this institutional ...
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
The existence of a coevolutionary process between avian brood parasites and their hosts predicts ... more The existence of a coevolutionary process between avian brood parasites and their hosts predicts a lower intra-clutch variation in egg appearance of host eggs among rejecters as this would favor egg discrimination of parasite eggs by hosts once parasitic egg mimicry had evolved. So far empirical tests of this prediction have ignored the fact that different aspects of host egg phenotypes may differ in the relative role of environmental vs. genetic determination, and hence that the role of intra-clutch variation in egg rejection within a population cannot be invariant. Here, we estimated whether the intra-clutch variation in several aspects of host eggshell features is consistently associated to rejection of parasitic foreign eggs across years in a magpie host population parasitized by great spotted cuckoos. We innovatively estimated spottiness by means of the fractal dimension of eggs, which considers the homogeneity of spot pattern complexity in eggshells. Our results show that low ...
Discourse, Context & Media, 2018
"We demonstrated how the Facebook Fan page becomes a public sphere. The creation of this... more "We demonstrated how the Facebook Fan page becomes a public sphere. The creation of this sphere would not be possible without the negotiation of fandom through fan approaches to criticism. The critical fan has various resources for maintaining fan status while criticizing either their fan-object via upward criticism or other fans in peer criticism. We also found criticism to be demonstrative of member resources — for instance, the use of web-speak for downplaying a problematic action or the use of humor or of consensus. When directed towards players or coaches, the joking tone served as a mitigating device, enabling fans to be critical affectionately. The strongest tool we demonstrated for enabling a fan to criticize, especially in upward criticism, is to join in a call for action as part of a reflexive public which has reached a consensus about the changes needed for the team to be successful. In our data, upward criticism lost its joking tone by the end of the season, and this criticism of the management became prevalent on the page. In becoming the dominant mode of addressing the management, this criticism of pleading for change from the ownership became central to the fans." P. 7
Language & Communication, 2017
Abstract This study analyzes phone interactions in Yiddish that are broadcast by telephone to ult... more Abstract This study analyzes phone interactions in Yiddish that are broadcast by telephone to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities through off-hook services called “hotlines”. Yiddish, a minority language, is the native tongue of most hotline speakers and marks their communal affiliation within the ultra-Orthodox world. We explore the instrumentalities of one Yiddish hotline in order to ascertain features that facilitate its role as a membering medium for its community. We show how participants use this medium to index who is – and who is not – a community member via language decisions that reflect language ideologies and maintain community boundaries; interviewees index their membership by linguistically accommodating interviewers; and hosts, on occasion, change language to ostracize an interviewee. We also explore the problematic status of Modern Hebrew for this community.
Discourse, Context & Media, 2017
Abstract Readers’ comments on op-eds have mostly been analyzed by researchers as cases of disagre... more Abstract Readers’ comments on op-eds have mostly been analyzed by researchers as cases of disagreement, and in the Israeli context they are further described as aggressive and abusive. These insights have been gained based on the use of offensive vocabulary and un-hedged directness. The present contribution proposes a cross-cultural examination of commenting, comparing responses to opinion editorials in the internet sites of the Washington Post and its ideologically counterpart in Israel, NRG, three op-eds for each language. To do so, we (a) introduce a coding scheme which accounts for commenting, based on a distinction between agreement/disagreement, logos-oriented vs. ethos-oriented (ad-hominem and ad-personam) comments, and literal vs. ironic keying; (b) postulate a scale of threat to negative face; and (c) compare the use of the various commenting strategies in two sets of data, the internet sites of the Washington Post for American English, and the Israeli NRG site for the Hebrew. Findings indicate (1) a higher preference for the more threatening no-logos and ad-personam comments in the NRG data as compared to the WP, (2) similarities between the two sites in the use of irony vs non-irony, with preference for ironic keying in anti-ethos as compared to anti-logos. We discuss the implications of these findings in terms of the commenting arena in the public sphere.
Javnost - The Public, 2012
Journal of Pragmatics, 2014
ABSTRACT This study describes the differing overall structural organization of political radio ph... more ABSTRACT This study describes the differing overall structural organization of political radio phone-in interactions in Israel and the USA. The American phone-in is highly organized, tightly controlled by the host, who knows and introduces the caller at the opening, and closes the interaction unilaterally. In the Israeli phone-in, the opening resembles the mundane phone call: the call-taker acts as if he responds to a summons, there are greeting sequences, and the caller has the task of self-identification, since hosts do not know with whom they talk. Closings in Israel are negotiated and include pre-closings and closing sequences. Unlike the US structure, the Israeli structure promotes non-hierarchical institutional relations between participants, akin to mundane relations, often taken as relations between equals. The conclusion connects the overall structural organizations with the communication patterns in each society, suggesting phone-ins are one site that resonates and recreates societal norms.
Discourse, Context & Media, 2013
ABSTRACT This paper presents hegemonic masculinity as it is achieved during interactions between ... more ABSTRACT This paper presents hegemonic masculinity as it is achieved during interactions between television host Jim Cramer and his callers in the “Lightening Round” segment on the CNBC television show “Mad Money”. Cramer's persona and interactions adhere to a hegemonic masculinity dominant in American culture, and they create a sphere in which it is the only normative identity possible. This hegemonic masculinity is created by the use of specific phrases (e.g. the “booyah” salutation), actions (e.g. compliments to the host), by the insertion of sports as a topic of discussion, and by Cramer's dominant positioning as an expert. After presenting these features we demonstrate how this arena creates problems for the very few female callers participating in it. We therefore conclude that the “Lightening Round” helps to construct and reproduce masculinist authority in this mass-mediated window into the world of finance.
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2014
Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2012
This article describes and discusses the production process of the leading Israeli radio phone-in... more This article describes and discusses the production process of the leading Israeli radio phone-in programme. Phone-ins are considered an arena for public participation as part of the public sphere. The researcher used ethnography and interviews to study the production process. The production team screens the participants-thus gatekeeping processes are in effect. The different agents in the production process use two main considerations to inform gatekeeping: medium-related considerations and public sphere considerations. These considerations are evident throughout the production process and in the broadcast itself. The gatekeeping process leads to limited access to public participation. The two considerations which inform the gatekeeping practices on radio are also useful when examining public participation in other media.
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2012
International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2013
Readers’ comments on op-eds have mostly been analyzed by researchers as cases of disagreement, an... more Readers’ comments on op-eds have mostly been analyzed by researchers as cases of disagreement, and in the Israeli context they are further described as aggressive and abusive. These insights have been gained based on the use of offensive vocabulary and un-hedged directness. The present contribution proposes a cross-cultural examination of commenting, comparing responses to opinion editorials in the internet sites of the Washington Post and its ideologically counterpart in Israel, NRG, three op-eds for each language. To do so, we (a) introduce a coding scheme which accounts for commenting, based on a distinction between agreement/disagreement, logos-oriented vs. ethos-oriented (ad-hominem and ad-personam) comments, and literal vs. ironic keying; (b) postulate a scale of threat to negative face; and (c) compare the use of the various commenting strategies in two sets of data, the internet sites of the Washington Post for American English, and the Israeli NRG site for the Hebrew. Findings indicate (1) a higher preference for the more threatening no-logos and ad-personam comments in the NRG data as compared to the WP, (2) similarities between the two sites in the use of irony vs non-irony, with preference for ironic keying in anti-ethos as compared to anti-logos. We discuss the implications of these findings in terms of the commenting arena in the public sphere.
Int. J. Electronic Governance, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp.361–379
"Israeli journalistic websites have initiated a feature that became fairly universal: a section ... more "Israeli journalistic websites have initiated a feature that became
fairly universal: a section at the end of each article that allows readers to respond to the article and to each other. This feature is captured by the metacommunicative term ‘tokbek’, derived from the English phrase ‘talk-back’. Although originally viewed as having the potential to promote civil participation, the tokbek soon became associated with pejorative cultural meanings that indicated its failure to do so. Drawing on the Ethnography
of Communication, we provide an interpretative framework for an analysis of this failure. The main function of tokbek is the construction of the commenters’ political identities, mainly as leftists and rightists. This oppositional construction takes the antagonistic form of a ‘bashing ritual’ that communicates
radical pessimism about the possibility of political debate. Because sharing a virtual space does not necessarily facilitate deliberation, democratic culture should be explicitly addressed when discussing technological advancements."
This chapter discusses terms for political talk to suggest a distinction between deliberative dis... more This chapter discusses terms for political talk to suggest a distinction between deliberative discussions and non-deliberative political talk. After shortly discussing theories of public discussions, we move to a vibrant communicative arena in Israel – the online commenting arena. This arena achieves a unique cultural status as it received its own term for talk “Tokbek”. First, a description of this scene and the term for talk is presented, based on prior work, to suggest this term for public talk denominate political talk which is non-deliberative and not geared toward social action. Then the chapter connects this term to the Israeli speech economy, especially to the following terms, the sticker, the anti-freier, griping, and kasah. This speech economy shares elements all help in constructing non-deliberative political talk. Since the Israeli speech economy created these terms to construct such political discussions, I suggest that terms for similar type of talk exist, with variations, elsewhere. It is suggested the terms in the Israeli speech economy is similar to the Hungarian hate speech phenomenon and to the Bulgarian oplakvane. These terms all offer emic culturally based terms for non-deliberative political discussions, eliminating what theorists demanded from democratic discussions – deliberations leading to social action.
Dori-Hacohen, G. (in-press). ""I can do math, but I''m not that smart. I''m not brilliant”: Ordinariness as a discursive resource in U.S.A radiophonic financial call-in interactions. In Fetzer, A. & Weizman, E. (eds.) Doing Ordinariness in Media Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing
Radio call-in shows, mainly political ones, are prevalent in discursive research, dating back to ... more Radio call-in shows, mainly political ones, are prevalent in discursive research, dating back to Hutchby’s influential work. This chapter discusses the leading U.S.A. economic self-help radio call-in show, “The Dave Ramsey show” and how ordinariness is used in it. The host, Dave Ramsey, advises callers, and the audience, regarding their economic behavior. This counseling creates a paradox: an expert-millionaire advises ordinary people and fans regarding their economic struggles. The host presents himself as ordinary to solve this paradox. Ramsey constructs his ordinariness using vernacular language, referring to a shared ‘common-sense,’ using mundane stories and relating to the callers as a family. Then, the chapter discusses two interactions with “non-ordinary” callers, a poor and a rich caller, to show the uses of the ordinariness practices in them. The conclusion connects the ordinariness of the host to his neoconservative ideology, to point to the notion of ordinary success he tries to deliver
This article discusses interactions on Israeli political radio phone-in programs between Jewish-I... more This article discusses interactions on Israeli political radio phone-in programs between Jewish-Israeli hosts, Arab Israeli citizens, and Arab non-citizen Palestinians. The position of most Arab non-Jew callers is complicated by their status as a non-uniform minority in Israel, and they deemed as "other" by many Jewish-Israelis. These programs serve as a vehicle for Bedouin and Druze callers to complain about their discrimination, and they often receive agreement and support from the interlocutor Jewish-Israeli show hosts. In interactions between Israeli hosts and Palestinians from the territories callers, however, the host and the Palestinian caller each present their respective nationalist views in a manner resembling an intractable conflict. Such mainstream Jewish-Israeli interactions with the "other" reflect the boundaries of the Israeli imagined community. While providing information to the mainstream about "internal minority" others, the interactions usually fail to build bridges with the "adjoining externalized others," who lie outside it.
Language and Communication, 2017
The aim of this paper is to theoretically associate the question of “membering” in call-in radio ... more The aim of this paper is to theoretically associate the question of “membering” in call-in
radio shows with the diverse responses of callers to these shows to hosts’ ironic utterances.
Assuming that reactions to irony depend in part on the speaker’s communicative
competence, we suggest that they might be indicative of the speaker’s communicative
competence in a specific speech community, such as that of radio call-in program. The
indirectness of irony requires that speech be understood and interpreted in a way that is
shared by the community. These elements are central to the definition of a speech community:
“sharing rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech” (Hymes, 1974:54), and
thus require an in-depth familiarity with this community’s goals and agreements, modes
of participation, and practices of speech.
This article describes radio programs that include one-on-one interactions between a host and cal... more This article describes radio programs that include one-on-one interactions between a host and caller about current affairs. The description reveals 2 formats: talk-back and phone-in. Talk-backs are found in commercial stations; the host is the star of these long programs; and the interactions with the callers are used to establish the status of the host. Phone-ins are found in public stations; the callers are the center of these shorter programs. These formats create 2 publics, 1 of passion at the talk-backs and 1 of discussion at the phone-ins. Each public has its features and relations with the public sphere.
Phone-in radio programs are part of the public sphere and thus require open access, rationality, ... more Phone-in radio programs are part of the public sphere and thus require open access, rationality,
and practicality. Simultaneously, they are a media product, which requires entertaining
content.We demonstrate these demands through the analysis of interactional irony
in Israeli political radio phone-ins. From an emic perspective, callers see irony as detrimental
to the discussions, yet hosts and regular callers use it to make entertaining interactions.
Irony is a critical tool that points to violations of norms: the normof a clear 2-sided interaction;
norms akin to theHabermasian public sphere; and at the content level, irony is used to
reject racist positions. Being indirect, irony can be used to create an entertaining yet critical
discussion in the public sphere.
This paper typifes the different interactions on Israeli public stations political radio phone-in... more This paper typifes the different interactions on Israeli public stations political radio phone-in programmes. Based on general features of the interaction and of the host perceptions, six different types of interaction were found. The different types can be distinguished by two aspects, whether the interaction is based on agreement or disagreement and whether the participants engage each other in the interaction. The most prominent type o inter-action is a two-sided disagreement interaction, in which hosts and callers argue about issues and problems. A similar type is that o the neutral interaction, in which hosts try to avoid expressing their opinions. Other types of interactions also occur in the programmes, yet hosts oten remark on their occurrence. These remarks serve to explain the interaction to the audience, to justify the hosts’ behavior, and to reprimand or compliment the caller. These remarks also suggest that hosts see these types as non-normative interactions, when compared to the two-sided disagreement and neutral interactions. The normative categories go hand in hand with the demands o a public sphere,showing that political radio phone-in programmes in Israel contribute to the public sphere and to its democratic lie.
This article describes and discusses the production process of the leading Israeli radio phone-in... more This article describes and discusses the production process of the leading Israeli radio phone-in programme. Phone-ins are considered an arena for public participation as part of the public sphere. The researcher used ethnography and interviews
to study the production process. The production team screens the participants – thus gatekeeping processes are in effect. The different agents in the production process use two main considerations to inform gatekeeping: medium-related considerations and public sphere considerations. These considerations are evident throughout the production process and in the broadcast itself. The gatekeeping process leads to limited access to public participation. The two considerations which inform the gatekeeping practices on radio are also useful when examining public participation in other media.
Journal of Pragmatics, Jan 1, 2012
Caller types in political talk radio programs in Israel and the United States. The different call... more Caller types in political talk radio programs in Israel and the United States. The different caller types are: anonymous, regular, returning, first-time and the unmarked standard caller. The regular callers in Israel use recognitionals to be identified by the host. The returning callers in both countries state their return at the beginning of their talk. The first-time caller also starts his interaction by stating this identity, and some of them say they are regular listeners, to mitigate their novice identity.These types are relevant throughout the interactions: the interactions with regulars and returning callers are harsher or freer than other interactions, whereas interactions with first time callers are gentler. These types resemble similar types from non media environments, such as the barroom. The various caller membership types contribute to the construction of a community around the programs.
International Journal of Communication 7 (2013), 2697–2719, Dec 2, 2013
This article analyzes the openings in host-caller interactions in three leading U.S. political ta... more This article analyzes the openings in host-caller interactions in three leading U.S. political talk radio (PTR) programs. Conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis are used to describe how fandom is achieved in these shows. Callers present themselves as fans in the first possible position in the interaction, using various practices ranging from uttering the word ditto to creating extended discourse structures. The hosts usually perceive these practices as compliments and appreciate them and the callers. PTR is a prime example of a fan-public, since its host harnesses the fans to achieve his political (and commercial) agenda. The hyphen in fan-public deserves attention, because this notion is rooted in infotainment, combining the relationships of the entertainment business, fans, and stars with the realm of politics, which would assume some critical notion and individuality in the decision-making processes.
Although generally considered to be highly influential, the discourse structure and practices of ... more Although generally considered to be highly influential, the discourse structure and practices of political talk radio have not yet been the subject of significant research. This paper examines one discursive practice, the use of irony, and how it functions in dialogues excerpted from an Israeli radio talk-back programme. By employing a fine-grained, turn-by-turn analysis of 17 interactions, we discuss ironic utterances by the host that target either the caller or a third party. In both cases, the host uses irony to control the programme, maintain his superiority, demonstrate his agenda and display his public persona. His utterances echo the callers’ explicit utterances as well as their assumed position; he also echoes their style, assigns them stereotypical views and pretends to agree with them. Since politeness is secondary at best in the context of political talk radio, irony here realizes its critical, confrontational and aggressive potential, and is hence used to “salt the wound” rather than “sugar the pill”. Thus, we demonstrate how the use of irony, as one discourse practice, perfectly fits the specific context of political talk-back radio in Israel.
In Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.) Constructing Collectivity: ‘We’ across Languages and Contexts (pp. 187-206). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
This chapter explores the Hebrew anaxnu (‘we’) in Israeli political radio phone-in programs. Usin... more This chapter explores the Hebrew anaxnu (‘we’) in Israeli political radio phone-in programs. Using the ‘we,’ participants create or refer to seven social groups: the conversation ‘we’; the program ‘we’; the delimited social ‘we’; the opposing general ‘we’, the open general ‘we’; the humanity ‘we’; and the vocal ‘we’. The functions of ‘we’ differ by participant: hosts use the conversation ‘we’
to manage interactions whereas callers use the general ‘we’ to create a public sphere. Using an extended excerpt, we illustrate a variant of the “fluidity of ‘we’” and its significance to the participants’ identity-displays. The first person plural
therefore creates social groups in media interactions, both on the micro and macro societal levels.
The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, 2015
Discourse Studies
"This article explores the properties of formulations in a corpus of Hebrew radio phone-ins by ju... more "This article explores the properties of formulations in a corpus of Hebrew radio phone-ins by juxtaposing two theoretical frameworks: conversation analysis (CA) and dialogic syntax.
This combination of frameworks is applied towards explaining an anomalous interaction in the collection – a caller’s marked, unexpected rejection of a formulation of gist produced by the radio
phone-in’s host. Our analysis shows that whereas previous CA studies of formulations account for many instances throughout the corpus, understanding this particular formulation in CA terms does
not explain its drastic rejection by the caller. We therefore turn to an in-depth examination of strategies for lexical and syntactic resonance as a stance-taking device throughout the interaction.
In so doing, we not only shed light on the anomalous interaction, but also offer an answer to a provocative question previously put forward by Haddington (2004) concerning which of the two
– stances or actions – have more meaningful consequences for the description of the organization of interaction. In the particular interaction analyzed here, stances play the more significant role.
We propose that the intersubjective stance-taking of participants may be viewed as a meta-action employed among participants as they move across actions, sequences, and activities in talk."
Journal of Pragmatics, Jan 1, 2006
Hebrew is among the languages in which person, number and gender are inflected on the verb in pas... more Hebrew is among the languages in which person, number and gender are inflected on the verb in past and future tenses. Although free-standing pronouns are therefore ''redundant'' in common-sense terms when articulated in such contexts, they do occur, and constitute departures from what conversation analysts propose to be a preference for minimization in person reference. Several exemplars are examined to show one interactional environment in which this usage occurs, and which it can be seen to mark, namely, environments of disalignment. Three upshots of this analysis are explicated. #
This article explores the properties of formulations in a corpus of Hebrew radio phone-ins by jux... more This article explores the properties of formulations in a corpus of Hebrew radio phone-ins by juxtaposing two theoretical frameworks: conversation analysis (CA) and dialogic syntax. This combination of frameworks is applied towards explaining an anomalous interaction in the collection -a caller's marked, unexpected rejection of a formulation of gist produced by the radio phone-in's host. Our analysis shows that whereas previous CA studies of formulations account for many instances throughout the corpus, understanding this particular formulation in CA terms does not explain its drastic rejection by the caller. We therefore turn to an in-depth examination of strategies for lexical and syntactic resonance as a stance-taking device throughout the interaction. In so doing, we not only shed light on the anomalous interaction, but also offer an answer to a provocative question previously put forward by Haddington concerning which of the two -stances or actions -have more meaningful consequences for the description of the organization of interaction. In the particular interaction analyzed here, stances play the more significant role. We propose that the intersubjective stance-taking of participants may be viewed as a meta-action employed among participants as they move across actions, sequences, and activities in talk.
Pragmatics: A quarterly journal of the …, Jan 1, 2011
Schegloff described utterances such as "lemme ask you a question" as pre-questions, pre-pre's or ... more Schegloff described utterances such as "lemme ask you a question" as pre-questions, pre-pre's or predelicates . This paper provides a discussion of similar utterances in a specific institutional setting -political radio phone-in programs in Israel. The participants use these utterances in ways that are similar to Schegloff's description. Yet, the pre-construction has additional institutional functions for the differing roles of the host and the caller. Hosts use these utterances to manage the interaction during overlaps as a means to secure an exclusive turn of talk following them. Callers use them infrequently at the beginning of their talk as story-prompts. Hosts may challenge this usage and the interactional role reversal. Regular callers can use the pre-constructions similarly to hosts. In this way, the pre-constructions in the Israeli radio phone-in programs are employed as interactional practices that relate and construct the roles in this institutional setting.
Discourse Studies, Jan 1, 2012
Previous studies of Hebrew nu investigate this discourse marker in casual conversation. The curre... more Previous studies of Hebrew nu investigate this discourse marker in casual conversation. The current study explores nu on Israeli political phone-in radio programs and broadens our knowledge both about the functions and grammaticization processes of discourse markers and about some particularities of Israeli political talk radio. The comparison to casual talk reveals both qualitative and quantitative differences. In casual talk, the main function of nu is a sequential one -urging further development of an ongoing topic (69%). In the radiophonic data, the most common role of nu is as a keying token (53%), functioning in the affective realm. Furthermore, the talk-radio data show a wider variety of keys constructed by nu -which range from joking to sheer contempt -clustering closer towards the latter, in contrast to the case of casual talk, manifesting mostly the joking key. Structurally, whereas sequential functions are generally accomplished by stand-alone nu, affective tokens are accompanied by same-speaker talk. The analysis sheds new light on how a sequential token might come to function in the affective realm.
Previous studies of Hebrew nu investigate this discourse marker in casual conversation. The curre... more Previous studies of Hebrew nu investigate this discourse marker in casual conversation. The current study explores nu on Israeli political phone-in radio programs and broadens our knowledge both about the functions and grammaticization processes of discourse markers and about some particularities of Israeli political talk radio. The comparison to casual talk reveals both qualitative and quantitative differences. In casual talk, the main function of nu is a sequential one -urging further development of an ongoing topic (69%). In the radiophonic data, the most common role of nu is as a keying token (53%), functioning in the affective realm. Furthermore, the talk-radio data show a wider variety of keys constructed by nu -which range from joking to sheer contempt -clustering closer towards the latter, in contrast to the case of casual talk, manifesting mostly the joking key. Structurally, whereas sequential functions are generally accomplished by stand-alone nu, affective tokens are accompanied by same-speaker talk. The analysis sheds new light on how a sequential token might come to function in the affective realm.
In: Peter Auer and Yael Maschler (eds.), NU and NÅ: A Family of Discourse Markers Across the Languages of Europe and Beyond.
Journal of Pragmatics, 2006
Hebrew is among the languages in which person, number and gender are inflected on the verb in pas... more Hebrew is among the languages in which person, number and gender are inflected on the verb in past and future tenses. Although free-standing pronouns are therefore ''redundant'' in common-sense terms when articulated in such contexts, they do occur, and constitute departures from what conversation analysts propose to be a preference for minimization in person reference. Several exemplars are examined to show one interactional environment in which this usage occurs, and which it can be seen to mark, namely, environments of disalignment. Three upshots of this analysis are explicated. #
Syllabus Communication Theory, 2023
Course Description and objectives We read articles about Theories and concepts of Communication, ... more Course Description and objectives We read articles about Theories and concepts of Communication, and we discuss them. This is an introduction; therefore, it is not inclusive or exhaustive of the depth or breadth of the discipline or its interdisciplinarity. We aim to broaden our understanding of the theoretical foundations of research alongside some of the conceptualizations of Communication. As part of introducing the faculty, you will meet faculty in the assignments and when introduced to the so-called departmental areas. For official UMass policies (regarding honesty, conduct, etc.), search and read them online and in the guidebooks. Weekly structure: You must read the assigned reading ahead of the meeting.
The UMass Department of Communication has an active group of faculty and students working in ethn... more The UMass Department of Communication has an active group of faculty and students working in ethnographic and cultural approaches to social interaction. In addition to offering focused coursework and individual mentoring, we meet twice each month as a group for Discourse Laboratory meetings to share data and work on analyses together. Topical foci of our research include intercultural communication, environmental communication, personhood, ethnic and racial identity, power in discourse, management of disagreement, interaction in the media, and mediated interaction. Faculty in this area of our graduate program vary in background and specific research interests, but we are united in addressing questions of social interaction, culture, and meaning:
Evolution of the media causes changes in the USA Presidential role. Research studied how the Pres... more Evolution of the media causes changes in the USA Presidential role. Research studied how the President answers questions in news conferences of traditional political interview, and in the hybrid political interview. We answer the following question: what are the features of President Barak Obama appearances on broadcast late-night television shows? We argue that the President and hosts collaborate on promoting entertainment over politics in these interactions. In his answers, the President appears as a celebrity: personable, authentic, and takes control of the interaction. Hosts prefer entertainment over politics by using hedges, accounts, preparatory elements to show reluctance in political questions, finishing these introductions with non-adversarial questions. Since the American public shies away from politics, politicians, including the President, need to meet it where they can. In entertainment arenas such as television late-night shows, the President is more of an entertainer, yet still delivers important information regarding his personality.
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In this paper, we analyze the mutual constitution of frames and selves in interactional practice.... more In this paper, we analyze the mutual constitution of frames and selves in interactional practice. We consider two examples, one taken from an Israeli radio call-in program and the other an American tutoring session. Both interactions follow a similar pattern with the caller and student encountering what appears to be a negative construal of their self, to which both respond with unusual interactional moves. In the radio call-in, during a discussion of the corruption of the government, the caller turns the conversation to the notion of “buying a wife.” In the tutoring session, during the tutor’s mini-lecture on the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the student takes out her mathematics notebook and starts working on math problems. In the discussion of these peculiar interactional moves, we consider the motivations, justifications, and consequences of these interactional moves. In so doing, we suggest how a theory of discursive and interactional framing could augment theories about the social construction of self, including face-work theory. In addition, we describe how a theory of power and agency in interaction rely on and constitute moral worlds.
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מחקר זה מתמקד בטוקבקים התגובות שישראלים כותבים באתרי אינטרנט, ובמונח המתאר זירה תקשורתית זו. לאו... more מחקר זה מתמקד בטוקבקים התגובות שישראלים כותבים באתרי אינטרנט, ובמונח המתאר זירה תקשורתית זו. לאור ניתוח פרשני של תגובות כאלה בעשר השנים האחרונות המאמר מתחיל בתיאור הפוטנציאל הקרנבלי הקיים בטוקבקים. אלה יכולים לממש את הקרנבל הבכטיניאני, כשהם מדגישים את הנמוך, הגופני ובייחוד את הפתיחות, השוויוניות וחוסר הכבוד לעמדות כוח. ממדים קרנבליים אלה היו יכולים להפוך את זירת הטוקבק לזירה דמוקרטית מלאה, שלא כמרחב הציבורי הבורגני, אולם מהטוקבקים נעדרים שני אלמנטים חשובים: צחוק משחרר ופעולה חברתית חוץ-לשונית.
חלקו השני של המאמר מתאר את מילת המפתח "טוקבק" בתוך מארג מילות המפתח הישראליות. הטוקבק כמילת מפתח מתאר זירה תקשורתית שבה המשתתפים מציגים זהות פוליטית על ידי הכפשת הצד הפוליטי ההפוך להם, בדרך כלל ללא הבעת דעה או ביסוסה. הטוקבק הוא טקס כסאחיסטי של אנטי-פראיירים שכל עניינם לקטֵר. כך הטוקבק ומארג מילות המפתח הישראלי מאפשרים קיומה של תרבות דמוקרטית מוגבלת, המקיימת שיח פוליטי ער הנעדר פתיחות לשינוי דעה והנעה לפעולה חברתית – אלמנטים חשובים בדמוקרטיה.
הכהן, ג. וחמו, מ., (2002). "מתצפית לתעתיק: תיאוריה, פרקטיקה ופרשנות בניתוח שיח טבעי של ילדים". סקריפט, 3-4: 55-74.
אבני, ח., הכהן, ג. וחביב, ט., (2002). "לכידות בכניסות לסיפורים בשיח ילדים דבור." סקריפט, 3-4: 111-126.
Israel Studies in Language and Society, 3(2), 146-165 ,, 2011
הרדיו ותכניות לשיחות אקטואליה עם מאזינים בו הם מרחב ציבורי. מאמר זה מנתח שיחות מתכניות אלה בהשתתפ... more הרדיו ותכניות לשיחות אקטואליה עם מאזינים בו הם מרחב ציבורי. מאמר זה מנתח שיחות מתכניות אלה בהשתתפות ה'אחרים' בחברה הישראלית: פלסטינים שאינם אזרחי המדינה ואזרחים שאינם יהודים. השיח עם המטלפנים האזרחים שאינם יהודים הוא שיח משלב.
המטלפנים מגדירים ומציגים את עצמם כישראלים, ולכן הם מוחים על אפלייתם. הם משתמשים בתכניות כדי להשתלב במרחב הציבורי, ולכן מקצתם מטלפנים קבועים. המנחים בהסכימם עם המטלפנים יוצרים שיח הקורא לשוויון בין כל האזרחים ומשלב אזרחים אלה בחברה הישראלית.
השיח עם הפלסטינים הוא שיח עוין. השיחה עם המטלפן הפלסטיני פותחת בהסכמה אך נהפכת לעימות. המנחה הישראלי והמטלפן הפלסטיני מציגים בשיחה כל אחד את הצד הלאומי שלו, ולכן המנחה מגדיר אותה 'דו-שיח של חירשים'. השיח המשלב עם האזרחים הישראלים והשיח העוין עם הפלסטינים מדגימים את מעלותיו ומגרעותיו במרחב הציבורי. השיח המשלב מתבסס על תפיסת האזרחות במרחב הציבורי המאפשר השתלבות של כלל האזרחים בחברה. השיח העוין מבהיר שהשתתפות הפלסטינים בתכניות ובמרחב הציבורי הישראלי אינה יכולה לפתור את הסכסוך הישראלי-פלסטיני.
Dori-Hacohen, G. (2012). Thank you our reporter: Interactional aspects of the story delivery in television news. In: Hamo, M., et. al. (eds.): Media, Utterances, Meaning, a book in honor of Shoshana Blum-Kulka (pp. 318-348).
Dori-Hacohen, G. (2010). ‘You nag so much’: Description of confrontational discourse between two women. Hebrew Linguistics 62-63, 201-230
Dori-Hacohen, G. (2021). Performing my My Pandemic Impact Statement (PISS in short): Answering Inhumane Invitation. 17th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Online., 2021
Beginning in the Spring 2020 semester, faculty across the University experienced a significant di... more Beginning in the Spring 2020 semester, faculty across the University experienced a significant disruption due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. As a result of the health crisis, all faculty moved their courses online, research facilities including labs and libraries were closed and all student evaluation of teaching was suspended. In conjunction with the disruptions experienced on-campus, many faculty were working out of their homes while simultaneously providing childcare due to closures of daycare facilities and K-12 schooling. Research disruptions, shifts in teaching modalities, limited childcare, and remote work persisted into Summer 2020. As such, we invite you to include a Pandemic Impact Statement with your AFR describing the adjustments you have made, how your work in particular has been impacted by the health crisis, and your contributions to the University's transition to remote work."
This series brings scholars of political comedy together in order to examine the effect of humor ... more This series brings scholars of political comedy together in order to examine the effect of humor and comedy in a political way. The series has three main components. Political Comedy Encounters Neoliberalism aims to look at how comedy disrupts or reinforces dominant ideologies under neoliberalism, including but not limited to: forms of authority, epistemological certainties bred by market centrality, prospects for democratic thought and action, and the implications for civic participation. Political Comedy as Cultural Text examines the relationship between the more bizarre elements of contemporary politics and comedy, including but not limited to countersubversive narratives that challenge or reinforce anti-democratic political authority and market thought, radical social movements that seek to undermine it, and political comedy's relationship to the cultural unconscious. Lastly, the series welcomes proposals for scholarship that tracks the context in which comedy and politics interact. Political Comedy in Context follows the intersection of politics and comedy in viral, mediated, and affective environments.