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Publication details [#25920]
Blum-Kulka, Shoshana, Menahem Blondheim and Gonen Hacohen. 2002. Traditions of dispute: from negotiations of talmudic texts to the arena of political discourse in the media. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (10-11) : 1569–1594.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study which compares Israeli political talk show discursive interaction with traditional Jewish argumentation as performed in Talmudic academies, yields a series of similarities in discursive attributes: a marked preference for disagreement; high dialogicity of the exchanges in the sense of nuanced listening and responding; acceptance of occasional disruptions in the the dialogicity of the conversation-flow without its breakdown and high complexity of logic and structure in argument(ation). These results suggest the possibility of a survival and transfer of styles from the religious to the public ideological and political sphere.