Individual moral otherness as a means to underscore sectoral otherness
This study examines the news broadcasts of the Israeli TV Channel 2. It focuses on coverage of instances in which
Haredi ‘Jewish ultra-Orthodox’ individuals are accused of committing immoral acts such as child abuse, hit
and run accident and rape. I argue that in all of these instances, the moral otherness of these individuals is linked to their
Haredi identity, thus intensifying the negative-sectoral otherness of the entire Haredi
community.
I discuss tagging, visual devices and especially discursive strategies used to link individual moral otherness to
sectoral otherness at various levels of directness. Additionally, I analyze online comments written by viewers of the items
discussed, which indicate the identification and interpretation of implications and implicatures conveyed by this rhetorical
linkage.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.
Haredim and sectoral-Haredi otherness
- 3.The corpus
- 3.1Primary corpus
- 3.2Secondary corpus
- 4.Marking immoral individuals as Haredim
- 4.1Over-tagging ‘Haredi(m)’ in items on immoral individuals
- 4.2Visual devices for indicating the Haredi identity of immoral individuals
- 4.3Linguistic markers for indicating the Haredi identity of immoral individuals
- 4.3.1Markers that refer to the immoral individuals
- 4.3.2Markers that refer to the environment of immoral individuals
- 5.Interpretation of implications and implicatures by viewers
- 6.Summary and interpretative framing
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
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