Shoshana Blum‐kulka
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shoshana Blum‐kulka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shoshana |
| FAMILY NAME | Blum‐kulka |
| SIGNATURE | KULKA S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 572 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
House, Juliane
Juliane House is emerita professor of Applied Linguistics and senior member of the German Science Foundation's Research Center on Multilingualism.
Language Socialization and Family Dinnertime Discourse
The development of coherence and cohesion in monolingual and sequential bilingual children’s narratives: Same or different
Studies of monolingual narrative production have revealed interacting paths in the development of coherence and cohesion across languages but less is known about bilingual narratives, where a gap may exist between socio-cognitive and linguistic abilities. The present longitudinal study explores the relations between measures of coherence and cohesion in the picture-based oral narratives elicited from 23 sequential bilinguals at two times — 2nd an…
Identifying irony in news interviews
Discourse Pragmatics
Explanations in naturally occurring peer talk: Conversational emergence and function, thematic scope, and contribution to the development of discursive skills
This study examines explanations in children’s natural peer talk, as they emerge in collaborative interaction among children, in two cohorts: preschoolers (aged 4—5) and preadolescents (aged 9—10). The study examined 322 explanations for the diversity of their content-components, their modes of emergence, and social functions. Quantitative analysis revealed a wide range of explanation topics in both cohorts, with a shift with age from the immedia…
Peer talk as a ‘double opportunity space’: The case of argumentative discourse
We propose a theoretical view of peer talk as a ‘double opportunity space’, functioning concurrently on the plane of meaning making within childhood culture, as a locus for the co-construction of children’s social world and peer culture, while at the same time affording opportunities for the development of discursive learning (Blum-Kulka, 2005; Blum-Kulka et al., 2004: 308). In the present article, we provide further evidence for this twofold con…
Saddam on CBS and Arafat on IBA Interviewing the Enemy on Television
The two cases analyzed here demonstrate a new journalistic practice of interviewing enemy leaders at times of war. We argue that whereas traditionally journalists had accepted the principle that when the nation is under threat, patriotism precedes professionalism, in the new media environment, with the domestic public exposed to international TV channels, this is no longer an option. As a result, journalists act more independently, even when this…
Do children apologize to each other? Apology events in young Israeli peer discourse
Children's apologies are greatly under-researched. Though there is wealth of information available on the pragmatics of apologies generally, we know much less about whether and how children apologize. Our study explores modes of remedial work by Israeli children in peer discourse. The data were collected through ethnographic observation of Israeli preschool and preadolescents, and consist of 57 (taped and transcribed) apology events identified in…
Introduction: The Potential of Peer Talk
Research on children interacting with each other encompasses a wide variety of specific research interest, including but not limited to a focus on language. In this introduction to an issue of Discourse Studies devoted to the contribution of peer talk to pragmatic development, we define ‘peer talk’ as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry and we critically review literature on the role of peer talk in children’s pragmatic development. We suggest …
The Social and Discursive Spectrum of Peer Talk
The study aims to lay the groundwork for systematically investigating children’s peer discourse at different age levels with a view to delimiting the role of peer talk for pragmatic development. An interdisciplinary stance to the study of children’s peer talk is argued for, considering it simultaneously as the arena for the co-construction of childhood cultures as well as an arena for development. We propose a four-dimensional model of discursive…
It Takes Two to Blow the Whistle: Do Journalists Control the Outbreak of Scandal
The article argues that the exposure of scandal, often seen as constituting the highest journalistic achievement, is not necessarily controlled by the journalist. Looking at scandal as the outcome of the varying relationship between reporters and sources, the authors offer a typology of subgenres. Whistle blowing is a story in which the source betrays his or her institutional loyalty (often for a higher cause), entrapment is a story in which the …
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Traditions of dispute: From Negotiations of Talmudic Texts to the Arena of Political Discourse in the Media
Peres versus Netanyahu: Television Wins the Debate, Israel 1996
At 10 o’clock in the evening, on 29 May 1996, as election ballots closed, the news anchors on Israeli television announced: According to the television sample polling, Shimon Peres has won the election for Prime Minister by a two per cent margin. However, during the long night which followed, as the real results from the various ballots accumulated, this tiny advantage shrank gradually. By next morning it became clear that victory had changed han…
Politeness revisited: Cross-cultural perspectives
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The Dynamics of Family Dinner Talk: Cultural Contexts for Children's Passages to Adult Discourse
Managing a Moral Dilemma: Israeli Soldiers in the Intifada
The Palestinian uprising (intifada) in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 has created a moral dilemma for at least some Israeli soldiers who are assigned to participate, however reluctantly, in the military effort to suppress it. The dilemma consists in strong commitment to the army, on the one hand, and objections to its tactics of repression on the other. In an attempt to observe the processes of coping with the resulting dissonancewide…
You gotta know how to tell a story: Telling, tales, and tellers in American and Israeli narrative events at dinner
This study explores the degree of cultural diversity in the dinner-table conversation narrative events of eight middle-class Jewish-American and eight Israeli families, matched on family constellation. Conceptualized in terms of a threefold framework of telling, tales, and tellers, the analysis reveals both shared and unshared narrative event properties. Narrative events unfold in both groups in similar patterns with respect to multiple participa…
Developing Autonomy for Tellers, Tales, and Telling in Family Narrative Events
Dinner-table conversations are contexts in which children become socialized to local cultural rules regulating storytelling and may be able to achieve autonomy in telling stories, as tellers of stories, and in the content or tale recounted. Conversations from five American and five Israeli middle-class families and five American working-class families matched on family constellation generated 33, 40, and 15 narratives, respectively. Each of the g…
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies
You don't touch lettuce with your fingers
Indirectness and politeness in requests: Same or different
Too Many Words: Length of Utterance and Pragmatic Failure
This paper investigates the theoretical and applied domains of pragmatic failure. With respect to theory, it further clarifies pragmatic failure both in native and non-native speech, and with respect to the applied domain compares request realizations of native and non-native speakers in terms of length of utterance. In discussing the results of this comparison, a number of hypotheses are put forward concerning the ways in which deviation from na…
Modifiers as Indicating Devices: The Case of Requests
Requests and Apologies: A Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP)1
Journal Article Requests and Apologies: A Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP)1 Get access SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA, SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA Hebrew UniversityJerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ELITE OLSHTAIN ELITE OLSHTAIN Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 5, Issue 3, Autumn 1984, Pages 196-213,…
Indirectness and politeness in requests: Same or different
You don't touch lettuce with your fingers
Traditions of dispute: From Negotiations of Talmudic Texts to the Arena of Political Discourse in the Media
You gotta know how to tell a story: Telling, tales, and tellers in American and Israeli narrative events at dinner
This study explores the degree of cultural diversity in the dinner-table conversation narrative events of eight middle-class Jewish-American and eight Israeli families, matched on family constellation. Conceptualized in terms of a threefold framework of telling, tales, and tellers, the analysis reveals both shared and unshared narrative event properties. Narrative events unfold in both groups in similar patterns with respect to multiple participa…
It Takes Two to Blow the Whistle: Do Journalists Control the Outbreak of Scandal
The article argues that the exposure of scandal, often seen as constituting the highest journalistic achievement, is not necessarily controlled by the journalist. Looking at scandal as the outcome of the varying relationship between reporters and sources, the authors offer a typology of subgenres. Whistle blowing is a story in which the source betrays his or her institutional loyalty (often for a higher cause), entrapment is a story in which the …
Introduction: The Potential of Peer Talk
Research on children interacting with each other encompasses a wide variety of specific research interest, including but not limited to a focus on language. In this introduction to an issue of Discourse Studies devoted to the contribution of peer talk to pragmatic development, we define ‘peer talk’ as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry and we critically review literature on the role of peer talk in children’s pragmatic development. We suggest …
The Dynamics of Family Dinner Talk: Cultural Contexts for Children's Passages to Adult Discourse
The Social and Discursive Spectrum of Peer Talk
The study aims to lay the groundwork for systematically investigating children’s peer discourse at different age levels with a view to delimiting the role of peer talk for pragmatic development. An interdisciplinary stance to the study of children’s peer talk is argued for, considering it simultaneously as the arena for the co-construction of childhood cultures as well as an arena for development. We propose a four-dimensional model of discursive…
Saddam on CBS and Arafat on IBA Interviewing the Enemy on Television
The two cases analyzed here demonstrate a new journalistic practice of interviewing enemy leaders at times of war. We argue that whereas traditionally journalists had accepted the principle that when the nation is under threat, patriotism precedes professionalism, in the new media environment, with the domestic public exposed to international TV channels, this is no longer an option. As a result, journalists act more independently, even when this…
Managing a Moral Dilemma: Israeli Soldiers in the Intifada
The Palestinian uprising (intifada) in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 has created a moral dilemma for at least some Israeli soldiers who are assigned to participate, however reluctantly, in the military effort to suppress it. The dilemma consists in strong commitment to the army, on the one hand, and objections to its tactics of repression on the other. In an attempt to observe the processes of coping with the resulting dissonancewide…
Peer talk as a ‘double opportunity space’: The case of argumentative discourse
We propose a theoretical view of peer talk as a ‘double opportunity space’, functioning concurrently on the plane of meaning making within childhood culture, as a locus for the co-construction of children’s social world and peer culture, while at the same time affording opportunities for the development of discursive learning (Blum-Kulka, 2005; Blum-Kulka et al., 2004: 308). In the present article, we provide further evidence for this twofold con…
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies
The development of coherence and cohesion in monolingual and sequential bilingual children’s narratives: Same or different
Studies of monolingual narrative production have revealed interacting paths in the development of coherence and cohesion across languages but less is known about bilingual narratives, where a gap may exist between socio-cognitive and linguistic abilities. The present longitudinal study explores the relations between measures of coherence and cohesion in the picture-based oral narratives elicited from 23 sequential bilinguals at two times — 2nd an…
Do children apologize to each other? Apology events in young Israeli peer discourse
Children's apologies are greatly under-researched. Though there is wealth of information available on the pragmatics of apologies generally, we know much less about whether and how children apologize. Our study explores modes of remedial work by Israeli children in peer discourse. The data were collected through ethnographic observation of Israeli preschool and preadolescents, and consist of 57 (taped and transcribed) apology events identified in…
Identifying irony in news interviews
The Study of Translation in View of New Developments in Discourse Analysis: The Problem of Indirect Speech Acts
Shoshana Blum-Kulka, The Study of Translation in View of New Developments in Discourse Analysis: The Problem of Indirect Speech Acts, Poetics Today, Vol. 2, No. 4, Translation Theory and Intercultural Relations (Summer - Autumn, 1981), pp. 89-95
The Study of Translation in View of New Developments in Discourse Analysis: The Problem of Indirect Speech Acts
Shoshana Blum-Kulka, The Study of Translation in View of New Developments in Discourse Analysis: The Problem of Indirect Speech Acts, Poetics Today, Vol. 2, No. 4, Translation Theory and Intercultural Relations (Summer - Autumn, 1981), pp. 89-95
Learning to Say What You Mean in a Second Language: A Study of the Speech Act Performance of Learners of Hebrew as a Second Language
Learning to Say What You Mean in a Second Language: A Study of the Speech Act Performance of Learners of Hebrew as a Second Language1
Journal Article Learning to Say What You Mean in a Second Language: A Study of the Speech Act Performance of Learners of Hebrew as a Second Language1 Get access SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA The Center for Applied Linguistics The Hebrew UniversityJerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume III, Issue 1, Spring 1982, Pages 29–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/III.1.29 Pu…
Pragmatics and Second Language Learning: Preface
SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA, ELITE OLSHTAIN; Pragmatics and Second Language Learning: Preface, Applied Linguistics, Volume 5, Issue 3, 1 October 1984, Pages 187–18
International pragmatics conference
Requests and Apologies: A Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP)1
Journal Article Requests and Apologies: A Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP)1 Get access SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA, SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA Hebrew UniversityJerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ELITE OLSHTAIN ELITE OLSHTAIN Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 5, Issue 3, Autumn 1984, Pages 196-213,…
Modifiers as Indicating Devices: The Case of Requests
Crosscultural pragmatics and the testing of communicative competence
This article addresses the issue of testing for communicative competence in second language acquisition, focusing specifically on the learner's ability to use the appropriate sociocultural rules of speaking. The main notion underlying the arguments presented here is the one forwarded by Shohamy (1984) that the construction of quality language tests necessitates the integration of knowledge from the domain of language learning with knowledge from …
Too Many Words: Length of Utterance and Pragmatic Failure
This paper investigates the theoretical and applied domains of pragmatic failure. With respect to theory, it further clarifies pragmatic failure both in native and non-native speech, and with respect to the applied domain compares request realizations of native and non-native speakers in terms of length of utterance. In discussing the results of this comparison, a number of hypotheses are put forward concerning the ways in which deviation from na…
Indirectness and politeness in requests: Same or different
You don't touch lettuce with your fingers
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies
Developing Autonomy for Tellers, Tales, and Telling in Family Narrative Events
Dinner-table conversations are contexts in which children become socialized to local cultural rules regulating storytelling and may be able to achieve autonomy in telling stories, as tellers of stories, and in the content or tale recounted. Conversations from five American and five Israeli middle-class families and five American working-class families matched on family constellation generated 33, 40, and 15 narratives, respectively. Each of the g…
You gotta know how to tell a story: Telling, tales, and tellers in American and Israeli narrative events at dinner
This study explores the degree of cultural diversity in the dinner-table conversation narrative events of eight middle-class Jewish-American and eight Israeli families, matched on family constellation. Conceptualized in terms of a threefold framework of telling, tales, and tellers, the analysis reveals both shared and unshared narrative event properties. Narrative events unfold in both groups in similar patterns with respect to multiple participa…
Politeness revisited: Cross-cultural perspectives
Preview this article: Politeness revisited: Cross-cultural perspectives, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/pc.2.2.10blu-1.gif
The Dynamics of Family Dinner Talk: Cultural Contexts for Children's Passages to Adult Discourse
Managing a Moral Dilemma: Israeli Soldiers in the Intifada
The Palestinian uprising (intifada) in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 has created a moral dilemma for at least some Israeli soldiers who are assigned to participate, however reluctantly, in the military effort to suppress it. The dilemma consists in strong commitment to the army, on the one hand, and objections to its tactics of repression on the other. In an attempt to observe the processes of coping with the resulting dissonancewide…
Peres versus Netanyahu: Television Wins the Debate, Israel 1996
At 10 o’clock in the evening, on 29 May 1996, as election ballots closed, the news anchors on Israeli television announced: According to the television sample polling, Shimon Peres has won the election for Prime Minister by a two per cent margin. However, during the long night which followed, as the real results from the various ballots accumulated, this tiny advantage shrank gradually. By next morning it became clear that victory had changed han…
Traditions of dispute: From Negotiations of Talmudic Texts to the Arena of Political Discourse in the Media
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Introduction: The Potential of Peer Talk
Research on children interacting with each other encompasses a wide variety of specific research interest, including but not limited to a focus on language. In this introduction to an issue of Discourse Studies devoted to the contribution of peer talk to pragmatic development, we define ‘peer talk’ as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry and we critically review literature on the role of peer talk in children’s pragmatic development. We suggest …
The Social and Discursive Spectrum of Peer Talk
The study aims to lay the groundwork for systematically investigating children’s peer discourse at different age levels with a view to delimiting the role of peer talk for pragmatic development. An interdisciplinary stance to the study of children’s peer talk is argued for, considering it simultaneously as the arena for the co-construction of childhood cultures as well as an arena for development. We propose a four-dimensional model of discursive…
It Takes Two to Blow the Whistle: Do Journalists Control the Outbreak of Scandal
The article argues that the exposure of scandal, often seen as constituting the highest journalistic achievement, is not necessarily controlled by the journalist. Looking at scandal as the outcome of the varying relationship between reporters and sources, the authors offer a typology of subgenres. Whistle blowing is a story in which the source betrays his or her institutional loyalty (often for a higher cause), entrapment is a story in which the …
Do children apologize to each other? Apology events in young Israeli peer discourse
Children's apologies are greatly under-researched. Though there is wealth of information available on the pragmatics of apologies generally, we know much less about whether and how children apologize. Our study explores modes of remedial work by Israeli children in peer discourse. The data were collected through ethnographic observation of Israeli preschool and preadolescents, and consist of 57 (taped and transcribed) apology events identified in…
Saddam on CBS and Arafat on IBA Interviewing the Enemy on Television
The two cases analyzed here demonstrate a new journalistic practice of interviewing enemy leaders at times of war. We argue that whereas traditionally journalists had accepted the principle that when the nation is under threat, patriotism precedes professionalism, in the new media environment, with the domestic public exposed to international TV channels, this is no longer an option. As a result, journalists act more independently, even when this…
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