Language & communication in Israel / Hanna Herzog & Eliezer Ben-Rafael, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herzog, Hanna.

Ben Rafael, Eliezer.

Series:

Studies of Israeli society ; v. 9.

Studies of Israeli society ; vol. IX

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Israel.

Sociolinguistics.

Communication--Israel.

Communication.

Language and culture--Israel.

Language and culture.

Israel.

Physical Description:

xiii, 656 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Language and communication in Israel

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2001]

Contents:

1. The Study of Language and Communication in Israeli Social Sciences

A Road Map of the Book / Hanna Herzog, Eliezer Ben-Rafael 15

Part 2 Language and Communication in Daily Life

2. Lefargen: A Study in Israeli Semantics of Social Relations / Tamar Katriel 31

3. That's How We Were: Individual, Group, and Collective in the Tel Aviv of "Late Summer Blues" / Haim Hazan 53

4. "You Gotta Know How to Tell a Story": Telling Tales, and Tellers in American and Israeli Narrative Events at Dinner / Shoshana Blum-Kulka 77

5. In-Group Humor of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel / Narspy Zilberg 129

6. A Symbolic Interactionist User's Guide to the Answering Machine: 22 Reflections on Vocal Encounters in an Emerging Social World / Aviad E. Raz, Rina Shapira 151

Part 3 Language in a Pluralistic Society

7. A Sociological Paradigm of Bilingualism: English, French, Yiddish, and Arabic in Israel / Eliezer Ben-Rafael 175

8. Attitudes toward Foreign Words in Contemporary Hebrew / Haya Fisherman 207

9. Bilingualism in a Moroccan Settlement in the South of Israel / Yaakov Bentolila 243

10. "Secularism Is the Root of All Evil": The Haredi Response to Crime and Delinquency / Gerald Cromer 259

11. The Construction of Identity in a Divided Palestinian Village: Sociolinguistic Evidence / Muhammad Amara, Bernard Spolsky 273

12. Jews and Arabs in Israel: The Cultural Convergence of Divergent Identities / Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Hezi Brosh 289

Part 4 Electronic Media and Social Diversity

13. Twenty Years of Television in Israel: Are There Long-Run Effects on Values and Cultural Practices? / Elihu Katz, Hadassah Haas 313

14. Video Watching and Its Societal Functions for Small-Town Adolescents in Israel / Rafael Schneller 331

15. VCR Narrowcasting in the Kibbutz / Dov Shinar 347

Part 5 In Times of Elections

16. Voters as Consumers: Audience Perspectives on the Election Broadcasts / Gadi Wolfsfeld 371

17. Was It on the Agenda? The Hidden Agenda of the 1988 Campaign / Hanna Herzog 389

18. The Silenced Majority: Women in Israel's 1988 Television Election Campaign / Dafna Lemish, Chava Tidhar 413

Part 6 In the Shadow of the Israeli-Arab Conflict

19. Decoding Television News: The Political Discourse of Israeli Hawks and Doves / Tamar Liebes 435

20. The Intifada as a Meta-Televisual Dialogue / Yosefa Loshitzky 461

21. One of the Bloodiest Days: A Comparative Analysis of Open and Closed Television News / Itzhak Roeh, Akiba A. Cohen 479

22. Terrorism as Theater: Mass Media and Redefinition of Image / Gabriel Weimann 497

Part 7 Society, State, and Mass Media

23. Protest, Television, Newspapers, and the Public: Who Influences Whom? / Sam Lehman-Wilzig 519

24. Inherent Contradictions of Democracy: Illustrations from National Broadcasting Corporations / Eva Etzioni-Halevy 535

25. The In/Outsiders

Political Control on Media in Israel: A Theoretical Framework / Dan Caspi, Yehiel Limor 557

26. Speech Presentation in the Israeli News: Ideological Constraints and Rhetorical Strategies / Itzhak Roeh, Raphael Nir 577

27. The Rabin Myth and the Press: Reconstruction of the Israeli Collective Identity / Yoram Peri 599

Part 8 Thinking about the Future

28. Greetings from a Viewer from Afar: The Objectives of Israel's Sociology of Language / Joshua A. Fishman 625

29. An Agenda for the Sociology of Communication in Israel / Elihu Katz 633.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-652).

ISBN:

1560003472

1560009985

OCLC:

46568776