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.
Galia Hirsch
List of John Benjamins publications for which Galia Hirsch plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2023 What kind of laughter? The triple function of “Hhh” as a contempt, intention, and interpretation marker Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
The article examines the pragmatic functions of the Hebrew graphic laughter marker “hhh” in a particularly turbulent public-political discursive arena – online readers’ comments to Facebook posts by the two leading contenders for the post of Israeli prime minister during the 2020 election… read more
2020 Adequate contextual explicitation in translation Target 32:3, pp. 456–481 | Article
On the face of it, it appears that the explicitation of contextual knowledge is consistent with Toury’s (1995) norm of acceptability rather than his norm of adequacy. This is because this type of explicitation, which seeks to bridge the gap in readers’ contextual knowledge, enhances readability… read more
2020 Irony, humor or both? The model revisited The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch (eds.), pp. 17–38 | Chapter
This contribution revisits the difference between irony and humor taking into account new approaches shedding light on the complicated relationship between irony and humor (Dynel 2013; Gibbs, Bryant & Colston 2014; Garmendia 2014; Kapogianni 2011; Piskorska 2014; Yus 2016). In previous research… read more
2020 It’s all in the attitude: Parodies of Rachid Taha and Seu Jorge Translation and Interpreting Studies 15:2, pp. 223–241 | Article
Building on various theoretical approaches to translation (Hickey 1998; Bassnett 2001), this article demonstrates the intersection between translation and parody (Aoyama and Wakabayashi 1999) by comparing two musical texts: Rachid Taha’s “Douce France” and Seu Jorge’s Portuguese translation of… 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
2015 Whose side are we on? Viewers’ reactions to the use of irony in news interviews Pragmatics 25:2, pp. 149–178 | Article
This research seeks to identify and analyze the reaction to irony in Israeli political news interviews, in view of the specific nature of this genre, which has been known to allow a certain level of adversarialness (Liebes et al. 2008; Blum-Kulka 1983; Weizman 2008; Clayman &Heritage 2002a and… read more
2011 Explicitations and other types of shifts in the translation of irony and humor Target 23:2, pp. 178–205 | Article
The goal of this article is to examine the differences in the use of explicitation strategies when translating irony and humor, based on a comparative model that distinguishes between cues for the two phenomena. The study suggests that translations of irony manifest more explicitations, whereas… read more
2011 Between irony and humor: A pragmatic model Pragmatics & Cognition 19:3, pp. 530–561 | Article
The goal of this paper is to propose a model that distinguishes between irony and humor in the context of literary texts. The comparative model was constructed based on existing models, and elaborated on them, substantiating the model through textual analysis focusing on cues for irony (Clark and… read more