Miri Cohen-Achdut
Biographic Data
| ID | 4104496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miri Cohen-Achdut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miri |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen-Achdut |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN-ACHDUT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1032-7968 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Echoes of Agency
It Was against the Rules but Had to Be Done
Multiple documents outline social workers’ professional obligations, such as the Global Definition of Social Work, laws, and codes of ethics. But how do practitioners themselves understand and perceive their professional obligations? In this critical discourse analysis study, authors examined closely what social workers talk about when they talk about the things they “have to do” or “must do.” Authors conducted interviews with 24 social workers w…
Does being pretty help
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 mediation thesis” (GoodYear-Grant 2013). We focus on the interviewees’ responses to these questions, and particularly on how grammatically negative utteranc…
Dialogic construction of authority in Hebrew women’s writing from the 19th century
The article discusses quotations as linguistic means for constructing authority. It seeks to attenuate two accepted premises regarding quotations and authority in linguistic research: firstly, that the source of quotation is the (single) source of authority, and secondly, the writer’s dichotomic attitude toward it: reliance or refutation. Two opinion essays in Hebrew were examined, authored by a woman and published in a Maskilic periodical during…
Self-quotations and politeness
The article discusses self-quotations as a strategy of politeness. I maintain that self-quotations fulfill strategies of linguistic politeness, and that the fulfillment of these strategies must be understood through the discourse event standing in the background of the self-quotation. In the corpus – 13 Hebrew articles written by women in eastern Europe in the nineteenth century – 35 self-quotations were found. All of them are “fictional”, i.e. t…
Does being pretty help
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 mediation thesis” (GoodYear-Grant 2013). We focus on the interviewees’ responses to these questions, and particularly on how grammatically negative utteranc…
It Was against the Rules but Had to Be Done
Multiple documents outline social workers’ professional obligations, such as the Global Definition of Social Work, laws, and codes of ethics. But how do practitioners themselves understand and perceive their professional obligations? In this critical discourse analysis study, authors examined closely what social workers talk about when they talk about the things they “have to do” or “must do.” Authors conducted interviews with 24 social workers w…
Self-quotations and politeness
The article discusses self-quotations as a strategy of politeness. I maintain that self-quotations fulfill strategies of linguistic politeness, and that the fulfillment of these strategies must be understood through the discourse event standing in the background of the self-quotation. In the corpus – 13 Hebrew articles written by women in eastern Europe in the nineteenth century – 35 self-quotations were found. All of them are “fictional”, i.e. t…
Dialogic construction of authority in Hebrew women’s writing from the 19th century
The article discusses quotations as linguistic means for constructing authority. It seeks to attenuate two accepted premises regarding quotations and authority in linguistic research: firstly, that the source of quotation is the (single) source of authority, and secondly, the writer’s dichotomic attitude toward it: reliance or refutation. Two opinion essays in Hebrew were examined, authored by a woman and published in a Maskilic periodical during…
Does being pretty help
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 mediation thesis” (GoodYear-Grant 2013). We focus on the interviewees’ responses to these questions, and particularly on how grammatically negative utteranc…
It Was against the Rules but Had to Be Done
Multiple documents outline social workers’ professional obligations, such as the Global Definition of Social Work, laws, and codes of ethics. But how do practitioners themselves understand and perceive their professional obligations? In this critical discourse analysis study, authors examined closely what social workers talk about when they talk about the things they “have to do” or “must do.” Authors conducted interviews with 24 social workers w…
Echoes of Agency
Sociology (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Function (biology (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)