Leon Shor
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leon Shor plays a role.
Articles
2024 “Does being pretty help?”: The use of negation in debut interviews with female Israeli politicians Journal of Language and Politics 23:2, pp. 239–260 | Article
The article analyzes debut interviews of female Israeli politicians, in which the interviewees are faced with questions or statements that imply that their gender, ethnicity or background prevent them from fulfilling their function as politicians successfully, in accordance with the “Gendered… read more
2024 Self-repeat as a multimodal retraction practice: Evidence from Hebrew conversation Interactional Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The paper focuses on a particular practice of self-repeat through which participants retract their prior formulations, and explores its multimodal design and use in the dynamic construction of meaning in Hebrew conversation. Drawing on interactional approaches to language and embodied action, we… read more
2020 Chapter 16. Negation in Modern Hebrew Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 583–622 | Chapter
This chapter examines the expression of negation in spontaneous spoken Modern
Hebrew. It provides a quantitative description of syntactic negation in the Corpus
of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH) to address syntactic, pragmatic, and prosodic
properties of negation. The study shows that in addition to… read more