Irit Kupferberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 197400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irit Kupferberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irit |
| FAMILY NAME | Kupferberg |
| SIGNATURE | KUPFERBERG I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Levinsky College of Education |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring micro- and macro-levels of discourse in digital parent-teacher communication
Current studies have foregrounded the contribution of discourse analysis to the study of the internet as a preferred interaction medium where social, psychological, cultural, and professional dimensions of meaning are co-constructed in naturally occurring communication. Studies have also emphasized the significance of parental partnerships with others regarding the wellbeing and success of pupils. However, little research has systematically exami…
Dismantle the monster
Experienced mainstream teachers and student teachers position themselves explicitly and implicitly in relation to inclusive classrooms
This qualitative study espouses an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework to explore how mainstream experienced teachers (METs) and student teachers (STs) position themselves vis-à-vis inclusive education (IE). The theoretical framework emphasises that global changes in education require the placement of IE in the forefront of educational practice and research. It also foregrounds the centrality of narrative texts and language…
Silencing and silence in Negev Bedouin students’ narrative discourse
This article explores explicit and implicit dimensions of identity that Negev Bedouin students position in their life stories. The literature review probes the participants’ historical, cultural and social contexts and presents the critical discourse-oriented perspective adopted in the study to explore identity construction in narrative discourse. Fourteen men and 16 women attending a college of education in southern Israel were asked to write me…
Religious Israeli Jews break the silence by performing forbidden discursive actions in a computer-mediated ‘troubles forum’
This article explores the construction of discursive actions and positioning of adult Israeli Jews who are renouncing their affiliation with religious Judaism and are seeking help in a secular computer-mediated ‘troubles forum’. Adopting the perspective of data-oriented discourse analysis and using content and figurative language analyses, the article shows that all participants, men and women, are performing a forbidden discursive action from th…
Exploring the Discursive Positioning of a Schizophrenic Inpatient via Method Triangulation
The article examines the contribution of method triangulation to the study of the self-construction of a schizophrenic inpatient in several encounters with a psychiatrist. We used institutional conversation analysis to probe the data for interactional sequence organization, while a positioning analysis enabled us to explore different levels of interpersonal positioning. Positioning is defined as a process whereby interlocutors locate one or sever…
Narrative and figurative self-construction in meaningful stories
The present study tests the validity of two claims foregrounded in current qualitative studies of troubled talk. First, single story-internal organizing figurative forms constitute succinct versions of troubled narrators' selves. Second, figurative clusters contribute to the construction of narrators' selves when some external or internal obstacle undermines communication. To explore this link between narrative and figurative self-construction, t…
Making sense of classroom interaction via a multiple-method design
This article explores the contribution of a multiple-method design to the study of classroom interaction. The theoretical and methodological frameworks of three constructivist discourse-oriented methods (i.e., Institutional Speech Event Analysis, The Four-World Method and Grounded Theory) are summarized and the same text is submitted to three independent text analyses. The article shows that a multiple-method design is conducive to the discovery …
Narrators defend their side of the story metaphorically at troubled narrative junctions
The study explores troubled Israeli telephone talk to explain the functions of figurative clusters (FCs) produced in callers’ stories. Espousing a theoretical framework comprising discourse-oriented institutional conversation analysis, narrative inquiry and discursive psychology, as well as a model of narrative positioning that probes narrators’ co-construction of meaning, we show that FCs were generated at certain junctions in the interaction wh…
Figurative Positioning in Mediaworthy Radio Talk
A current longitudinal research project explores how meaning is constructed discursively in troubled talk between sufferers and professionals in various help sites (e.g., internet forums, the radio and the hotline). Espousing discourse-oriented functionalist approaches (i.e, institutional conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and narrative inquiry), the researchers show that troubled selves often construct their problems through stories …
Figurative Positioning in Hotline Stories
Personal stories and tropes are ubiquitous in problem talk (e.g. therapy, counseling and hotline) which focuses on problem presentation, discussion and candidate solutions. Current studies of radio problem talk between troubled callers and psychologists show that certain tropes constitute the gist of callers’ narrative versions of the problems, and facilitate the negotiation of solutions (Kupferberg & Green, 1998). Adapting Bamberg’s (1997a) broa…
Detailed and Succinct Self-Portraits of Addicts in Broadcast Stories
Narrative discourse offers a viable perspective on sociocultural, psychological and professional dimensions of the self. Following Labov's early definition of evaluation, current studies explore linguistic and paralinguistic evaluative devices which participants in discourse use to present and construct their self. Organizing metaphors are a global evaluative device often used in broadcast personal stories to summarize local lexical and syntactic…
The Cognitive Turn of Contrastive Analysis
L2 learners of ten notice input which is frequent, functional and perceptually salient. Frequency, functionality and salience can be induced by instruction. One possible source of salience is contrast-dependent teacher-induced salience which is defined via contrastive analysis. In an experiment conducted with 137 intermediate FL learners, Kupferberg and Olshtain (1996a) showed that contrastive metalinguistic input (CMI) facilitated the acquisitio…
Metaphors Enhance Radio Problem Discussions
Problem-discussion radio programs involve callers with problems, discussed by radio hosts. An analysis of 30 calls suggests that callers who use personal stories and organizing metaphors have successful interactions. Organizing metaphors are defined as cognitive elements that summarize recursive story-internal patterns hierarchically and present a caller's succinct evaluation of self. The connection established in spoken discourse between stories…
Silencing and silence in Negev Bedouin students’ narrative discourse
This article explores explicit and implicit dimensions of identity that Negev Bedouin students position in their life stories. The literature review probes the participants’ historical, cultural and social contexts and presents the critical discourse-oriented perspective adopted in the study to explore identity construction in narrative discourse. Fourteen men and 16 women attending a college of education in southern Israel were asked to write me…
Detailed and Succinct Self-Portraits of Addicts in Broadcast Stories
Narrative discourse offers a viable perspective on sociocultural, psychological and professional dimensions of the self. Following Labov's early definition of evaluation, current studies explore linguistic and paralinguistic evaluative devices which participants in discourse use to present and construct their self. Organizing metaphors are a global evaluative device often used in broadcast personal stories to summarize local lexical and syntactic…
Metaphors Enhance Radio Problem Discussions
Problem-discussion radio programs involve callers with problems, discussed by radio hosts. An analysis of 30 calls suggests that callers who use personal stories and organizing metaphors have successful interactions. Organizing metaphors are defined as cognitive elements that summarize recursive story-internal patterns hierarchically and present a caller's succinct evaluation of self. The connection established in spoken discourse between stories…
The Cognitive Turn of Contrastive Analysis
L2 learners of ten notice input which is frequent, functional and perceptually salient. Frequency, functionality and salience can be induced by instruction. One possible source of salience is contrast-dependent teacher-induced salience which is defined via contrastive analysis. In an experiment conducted with 137 intermediate FL learners, Kupferberg and Olshtain (1996a) showed that contrastive metalinguistic input (CMI) facilitated the acquisitio…
Detailed and Succinct Self-Portraits of Addicts in Broadcast Stories
Narrative discourse offers a viable perspective on sociocultural, psychological and professional dimensions of the self. Following Labov's early definition of evaluation, current studies explore linguistic and paralinguistic evaluative devices which participants in discourse use to present and construct their self. Organizing metaphors are a global evaluative device often used in broadcast personal stories to summarize local lexical and syntactic…
Figurative Positioning in Hotline Stories
Personal stories and tropes are ubiquitous in problem talk (e.g. therapy, counseling and hotline) which focuses on problem presentation, discussion and candidate solutions. Current studies of radio problem talk between troubled callers and psychologists show that certain tropes constitute the gist of callers’ narrative versions of the problems, and facilitate the negotiation of solutions (Kupferberg & Green, 1998). Adapting Bamberg’s (1997a) broa…
Figurative Positioning in Mediaworthy Radio Talk
A current longitudinal research project explores how meaning is constructed discursively in troubled talk between sufferers and professionals in various help sites (e.g., internet forums, the radio and the hotline). Espousing discourse-oriented functionalist approaches (i.e, institutional conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and narrative inquiry), the researchers show that troubled selves often construct their problems through stories …
Narrators defend their side of the story metaphorically at troubled narrative junctions
The study explores troubled Israeli telephone talk to explain the functions of figurative clusters (FCs) produced in callers’ stories. Espousing a theoretical framework comprising discourse-oriented institutional conversation analysis, narrative inquiry and discursive psychology, as well as a model of narrative positioning that probes narrators’ co-construction of meaning, we show that FCs were generated at certain junctions in the interaction wh…
Making sense of classroom interaction via a multiple-method design
This article explores the contribution of a multiple-method design to the study of classroom interaction. The theoretical and methodological frameworks of three constructivist discourse-oriented methods (i.e., Institutional Speech Event Analysis, The Four-World Method and Grounded Theory) are summarized and the same text is submitted to three independent text analyses. The article shows that a multiple-method design is conducive to the discovery …
Narrative and figurative self-construction in meaningful stories
The present study tests the validity of two claims foregrounded in current qualitative studies of troubled talk. First, single story-internal organizing figurative forms constitute succinct versions of troubled narrators' selves. Second, figurative clusters contribute to the construction of narrators' selves when some external or internal obstacle undermines communication. To explore this link between narrative and figurative self-construction, t…
Exploring the Discursive Positioning of a Schizophrenic Inpatient via Method Triangulation
The article examines the contribution of method triangulation to the study of the self-construction of a schizophrenic inpatient in several encounters with a psychiatrist. We used institutional conversation analysis to probe the data for interactional sequence organization, while a positioning analysis enabled us to explore different levels of interpersonal positioning. Positioning is defined as a process whereby interlocutors locate one or sever…
Silencing and silence in Negev Bedouin students’ narrative discourse
This article explores explicit and implicit dimensions of identity that Negev Bedouin students position in their life stories. The literature review probes the participants’ historical, cultural and social contexts and presents the critical discourse-oriented perspective adopted in the study to explore identity construction in narrative discourse. Fourteen men and 16 women attending a college of education in southern Israel were asked to write me…
Religious Israeli Jews break the silence by performing forbidden discursive actions in a computer-mediated ‘troubles forum’
This article explores the construction of discursive actions and positioning of adult Israeli Jews who are renouncing their affiliation with religious Judaism and are seeking help in a secular computer-mediated ‘troubles forum’. Adopting the perspective of data-oriented discourse analysis and using content and figurative language analyses, the article shows that all participants, men and women, are performing a forbidden discursive action from th…
Experienced mainstream teachers and student teachers position themselves explicitly and implicitly in relation to inclusive classrooms
This qualitative study espouses an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework to explore how mainstream experienced teachers (METs) and student teachers (STs) position themselves vis-à-vis inclusive education (IE). The theoretical framework emphasises that global changes in education require the placement of IE in the forefront of educational practice and research. It also foregrounds the centrality of narrative texts and language…
Dismantle the monster
Exploring micro- and macro-levels of discourse in digital parent-teacher communication
Current studies have foregrounded the contribution of discourse analysis to the study of the internet as a preferred interaction medium where social, psychological, cultural, and professional dimensions of meaning are co-constructed in naturally occurring communication. Studies have also emphasized the significance of parental partnerships with others regarding the wellbeing and success of pupils. However, little research has systematically exami…
Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Literal and figurative language (6 works) · Narrative (6 works)