Esther Schely-Newman
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esther Schely-Newman plays a role.
Articles
2011 Discourse of (il)literacy: Recollections of Israeli literacy teachers Pragmatics 21:3, pp. 431–452 | Article
The concepts of literacy and illiteracy are fluid; their meanings vary according to sociocultural-political trends and language ideologies. Reflections of literacy workers about their involvement in national literacy campaigns are a source of data for such fluctuations. This paper analyzes the… read more
2009 To break down the wall: Constructing a literate self Narrative Inquiry 19:1, pp. 1–17 | Article
Narrating self-experiences inherently involves tension between real time and remembered time, between narrative event and narrated events. Narrators employ various strategies of footing and voicing to position their current “self” vis-à-vis their former selves and their audience. These… read more
1999 "I Hear from People Who Read Torah... ": Reported Speech, Genres and Gender Relations in Personal Narrative Narrative Inquiry 9:1, pp. 49–68 | Article
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ways a Jewish woman uses different genres in telling her life story. Setting the narrative within its cultural and social contexts enables an examination of narrative as a life story, as well as a mode of creating and expressing changes in women's roles.… read more