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.
Pnina Shukrun-Nagar
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pnina Shukrun-Nagar 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 Introduction The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
2020 “Hero, genius, king and Messiah”: Ironic echoing in pro-ethos and anti-ethos readers’ comments on Facebook posts The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch (eds.), pp. 59–82 | Chapter
This paper discusses readers’ comments on posts written by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his Facebook page in November 2017. It focuses on the use of ironic echoes (Sperber & Wilson 1981), including multi-stage ones, to either enhance or damage Netanyahu’s ethos as a successful… read more
2019 Individual moral otherness as a means to underscore sectoral otherness Journal of Language and Politics 18:2, pp. 161–183 | Article
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… read more
2019 “Well, Yair? When will you be prime minister?”: Different readings of ordinariness in a politician’s Facebook post as a case in point The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 103–129 | Chapter
The chapter examines readers’ comments on a Facebook post in which the Israeli politician Yair Lapid positions himself as an ordinary person. Based on Sacks (1984), it is argued that such positioning is characterized by themes, perspectives, and communicative patterns typical of ordinary people,… read more
2013 Disputing while covering a dispute on television news: Discursive devices and their interpretation by viewers Language and Dialogue 3:2, pp. 208–233 | Article
This paper discusses the potential of semantic, pragmatic and grammatical devices used in the Israeli television news coverage of a dispute to promote one agenda, negate a contradictory one and position the correspondent as a participant in the dispute. Moreover, I argue that viewers of news… read more