Dialogicity in Political Discourse
Edited by Elda Weizman and Zohar Livnat
Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 13:5 (2022) v, 154 pp.
Zohar Livnat
List of John Benjamins publications for which Zohar Livnat plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions
Edited by Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 316] 2020. viii, 257 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Communication Studies | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2024 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language
Policy 10. 2014: Champion, loser, or both? The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond, Külpmann, Robert and Rita Finkbeiner (eds.), pp. 339–366 | Article
Policy 10. 2014: Champion, loser, or both? The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond, Külpmann, Robert and Rita Finkbeiner (eds.), pp. 339–366 | Article
This article discusses “specified compliments” consisting of a positive evaluation of an ability or achievement; a preposition; and an area of expertise or excellence, e.g. “experts in security”. An analysis of 74 examples in comments on politicians’ Facebook posts during 2020–2021 revealed that… read more
2022 Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse Dialogicity in Political Discourse, Weizman, Elda and Zohar Livnat (eds.), pp. 837–860 | Article
Based on Buber’s dialogic philosophy, ideas from the ethics of dialogue and politeness theory, we analyze letters written by members of an Israeli organization named Besod Siach – who come from both the left and right wings, are both religious and secular, who decided to broaden and deepen the… read more
2022 Dialogic meaning-making in political settings: An introduction Dialogicity in Political Discourse, Weizman, Elda and Zohar Livnat (eds.), pp. 731–746 | Review article
The goal of this special issue is to investigate the forms and functions of dialogicity in political discourse. Starting with the premise that the boundaries between monologue and dialogue are blurred in contemporary political discourse in general and in mediated political discourse in… read more
2020 “My refrigerator is as much in the dark as I am”: Metaphorical irony in context The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch (eds.), pp. 39–58 | Chapter
This paper focuses on a particular type of metaphorical irony in which both readings of a metaphor have to be processed in order to grasp the speaker’s intention. Two ways in which the text encourages retention of both readings of metaphorical expressions are discussed: (1) Metaphorical… read more
2020 Introduction The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
2019 “You bring the steaks, I’ll bring the salad”: Presenting ordinariness in PM Netanyahu’s public talks The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 51–72 | Chapter
In line with theories of charismatic leadership (Weber 1947, Shamir et al. 1994), and drawing on Goffman’s approach (1959) regarding impression management as well as on Sacks’ concept (1984) of (extra)ordinariness as a work done through discourse, this study defines and analyzes a discursive… read more
2018 Morality, loyalty and eloquence: Conversational challenges and resources in a televised confrontational dialogue Journal of Language and Politics 17:3, pp. 405–427 | Article
The new dialogic, conversational nature of television broadcast news (Hamo, 2009) poses a challenge to traditional commentators, who are forced to move from an authoritative monologue to a confrontational dialogue that requires additional flexibility and conversational skills. The paper focuses… read more
2016 The interpersonal strand of political speech: Recruiting the audience in PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s speeches Language and Dialogue 6:2, pp. 275–305 | Article
The present study offers an underlying theoretical framework for examining political speeches from a rhetorical perspective. This framework is based on systemic functional linguistics developed by Halliday (most recently updated by Halliday and Matthiessen 2014), and includes discourse structures… read more
2014 Negotiating scientific ethos in academic controversy Journal of Argumentation in Context 3:2, pp. 126–152 | Article
The aim of this paper is to provide a rhetorical-linguistic analysis of academic ‘conflict articles’ that are part of an actual academic controversy in the field of archaeology, focusing on the concept of scientific ethos. In contexts of conflict, the act of establishing one’s ethos and attacking… read more
2013 The effect of irony in radio talk-back programmes in Israel The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 193–217 | Article
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… read more
2011 Making analogy work in the public arena Journal of Language and Politics 10:2, pp. 227–247 | Article
This paper discusses the Israeli newspaper coverage of a single event of considerable public significance in the Israeli-Palestinian context. A dominant analogy in the coverage that played various argumentative roles and its responses are analyzed. When trying to answer the question of how to… read more
2004 On verbal irony, meta-linguistic knowledge and echoic interpretation Pragmatics & Cognition 12:1, pp. 57–70 | Article
The aim of this paper is to examine some actual examples of written verbal irony that contain apposition. Meta-linguistic knowledge about apposition as a syntactic structure is claimed to be involved in the interpretation process of the utterance and especially in recognizing the victim of the… read more