Zohar Kampf
List of John Benjamins publications for which Zohar Kampf plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2213-1272 | E-ISSN 2213-1280
2022 “These are not just slogans”: Assertions of friendship between states Journal of Language and Politics 21:5, pp. 653–674 | Article
The goal of this study is to capture the meaning of interstate friendship from the perspective of international actors and to underline the benefits of analyzing speech acts as a tool for revealing the relational scripts that guide interstate relations. Analysis of the discourse surrounding 215… read more
2020 Chapter 7. #Lovely country, #wonderful people: Diplomatic compliments and praise on Twitter Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights, Placencia, María Elena and Zohreh R. Eslami (eds.), pp. 165–186 | Chapter
Considering the popularity of Twitter in digital diplomacy, this paper explores how international politicians enhance sociability by performing online compliments and praise. Drawing on 480 amicable actions collected from 14 accounts of foreign-affair actors, we analyze the prevalence, content,… read more
2020 “Do you condemn?”: Negotiating power relations through (in)direct questions and answers design in ethno-political interviews The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch (eds.), pp. 231–252 | Chapter
This chapter discusses a specific type of interactional ritual in ethno-political interviews, one that hinders their conciliatory potential. The ritual is performed by two types of participants: Jewish-Israeli interviewers demanding the condemnation of transgressions committed by others, and the… read more
2017 The politics of being insulted: The uses of hurt feelings in Israeli public discourse Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres, Kopytowska, Monika (ed.), pp. 149–169 | Article
Scholars of politeness admit that being insulted may be the result of the hearer’s assumptions about the other’s behavior and may not necessarily relate to the actual words or intentions of the speaker. Thus, it is surprising to find only a few accounts of how people are doing “being insulted” or… read more
2015 The politics of being insulted: The uses of hurt feelings in Israeli public discourse Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres, Kopytowska, Monika (ed.), pp. 107–127 | Article
Scholars of politeness admit that being insulted may be the result of the hearer’s assumptions about the other’s behavior and may not necessarily relate to the actual words or intentions of the speaker. Thus, it is surprising to find only a few accounts of how people are doing “being insulted” or… read more
2013 Mediated performatives Handbook of Pragmatics: 2013 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2012 From “There are no Palestinian people” to “Sorry for their suffering”: Israeli discourse of recognition of the Palestinians Journal of Language and Politics 11:3, pp. 427–447 | Article
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolving Israeli discourse of recognition of the Palestinian people and their suffering as a case study for theorizing the role of recognition statements in peace processes. Three stages of recognition are characterized and applied in order to understand the… read more
2011 Chapter 9. When the watchdog bites: Insulting politicians on air Talking Politics in Broadcast Media: Cross-cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability, Ekström, Mats and Marianna Patrona (eds.), pp. 177–198 | Chapter