Esther Schely‐newman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Schely‐newman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Schely‐newman |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMAN E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Discourse of (il)literacy: Recollections of Israeli literacy teachers
The concepts of literacy and illiteracy are fluid; their meanings vary according to sociocultural-political trends and language ideologies. Reflections of literacy workers about their involvement in national literacy campaigns are a source of data for such fluctuations. This paper analyzes the recollections of Israeli former soldier-teachers from the time of the campaign, and additional data collected decades later in personal interviews. Close a…
To break down the wall: Constructing a literate self
Narrating self-experiences inherently involves tension between real time and remembered time, between narrative event and narrated events. Narrators employ various strategies of footing and voicing to position their current “self” vis-à-vis their former selves and their audience. These characteristics are particularly pertinent in the case of significant life changes, such as learning to read and write for the first time as an adult. This paper t…
Defining Success, Defending Failure: Functions of Reported Talk
This article analyzes the functions of reported talk in interviews conducted with women who participated in a national adult literacy campaign. The distribution of voices helps the interviewees position themselves within the complex social relations and public discourses both during the historical time of action and the present time of interaction. Reported talk is a powerful discursive strategy for positioning, defining, and defending actions; t…
Mock intimacy: Strategies of engagement in Israeli gossip columns
Information about celebrities is abundant in media, including bits of information about marginal events that appear in gossip columns; a media genre not sufficiently studied. This article analyzes Israeli national gossip columns in an attempt to identify stylistic and linguistic ways columnists frame information as confidential and personal. It is argued that the use of discursive strategies creates an illusion of intimacy between the reader and …
Remember Shushan: Counter-nostalgia in gendered discourse
A naturally occurring conversation between friends about 'the good old days' is treated with special attention to one embedded story, about 'Shushan's wife'. A close analysis of the entire conversation demonstrates how participants may combine nostalgia with counter-nostalgia and resistance to the past. The embedded story thus acquires different, even contradictory, meanings depending on the amount of conversation considered as 'the text'. Follow…
I Hear from People Who Read Torah: Reported Speech, Genres and Gender Relations in Personal Narrative
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ways a Jewish woman uses different genres in telling her life story. Setting the narrative within its cultural and social contexts enables an examination of narrative as a life story, as well as a mode of creating and expressing changes in women's roles. In her story, the narrator chooses to present herself as a disciple of a religious male leader (a rabbi), a position which allows her to use traditiona…
Mothers know best: Constructing meaning in a narrative event
This paper treats a female storytelling‐round which preceded a family wedding. As is typically the case, the topic was improper gender relation, with wider implications about gender categories and social boundaries transmitted from mothers to daughters. Beginning with a description of the event as seen by a member of the group, the paper progresses to an analysis from a performance perspective treating patterns of participation, genres, and meani…
Competence and ideology in performance: Language games, identity and Israeli bureaucracy in personal narrative
This paper treats the performance of a personal narrative about an encounter with Israeli bureaucracy. The narrator told his story to friends in a mixture of languages: Arabic, Hebrew, French and Yiddish. The analysis examines the functions of code switching as a main discourse strategy creating a coherent story with personal and social implications. Grounding the event in its double context, as occurred and as told, within the larger historical‐…
Finding one's place: Locale narratives in an Israeli moshav
This paper attempts to show how people use narratives in the process of self definition based on locale. In 1949, Tunisian immigrants are sent to establish a new settlement in the Israeli Negev desert. Stories they share about their experiences in coping with the locale help them to establish a new identity, that of Israeli pioneers. The locale and its markers become chronotopes and help define the place and its settlers as distinct from the neig…
Sweeter than honey: Discourse of reproduction among North‐African Israeli women
Social alignments and gender relations are perpetuated, maintained and even created in verbal interactions. Analyzing speech genres and discourse strategies identified with one gender in a particular culture may therefore contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of gender relations. This paper analyzes a story about childbearing shared by women who immigrated to Israel from Arab countries in the early 1950s, and attempts to show the presen…
The Woman Who Was Shot: A Communal Tale
An accidental shooting of a woman in 1951 in the Israeli village of Tsomet has generated many stories that reflect this border community's concerns and fears. The A. analyses the relationship between the event and the community, seeking to understand the many narrative versions of the story by looking closely at the specific sociocultural context of a town settled by Tunisian Jewish immigrants. Different versions of the story reflect the nature o…
Sweeter than honey: Discourse of reproduction among North‐African Israeli women
Social alignments and gender relations are perpetuated, maintained and even created in verbal interactions. Analyzing speech genres and discourse strategies identified with one gender in a particular culture may therefore contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of gender relations. This paper analyzes a story about childbearing shared by women who immigrated to Israel from Arab countries in the early 1950s, and attempts to show the presen…
Competence and ideology in performance: Language games, identity and Israeli bureaucracy in personal narrative
This paper treats the performance of a personal narrative about an encounter with Israeli bureaucracy. The narrator told his story to friends in a mixture of languages: Arabic, Hebrew, French and Yiddish. The analysis examines the functions of code switching as a main discourse strategy creating a coherent story with personal and social implications. Grounding the event in its double context, as occurred and as told, within the larger historical‐…
Finding one's place: Locale narratives in an Israeli moshav
This paper attempts to show how people use narratives in the process of self definition based on locale. In 1949, Tunisian immigrants are sent to establish a new settlement in the Israeli Negev desert. Stories they share about their experiences in coping with the locale help them to establish a new identity, that of Israeli pioneers. The locale and its markers become chronotopes and help define the place and its settlers as distinct from the neig…
Defining Success, Defending Failure: Functions of Reported Talk
This article analyzes the functions of reported talk in interviews conducted with women who participated in a national adult literacy campaign. The distribution of voices helps the interviewees position themselves within the complex social relations and public discourses both during the historical time of action and the present time of interaction. Reported talk is a powerful discursive strategy for positioning, defining, and defending actions; t…
Mock intimacy: Strategies of engagement in Israeli gossip columns
Information about celebrities is abundant in media, including bits of information about marginal events that appear in gossip columns; a media genre not sufficiently studied. This article analyzes Israeli national gossip columns in an attempt to identify stylistic and linguistic ways columnists frame information as confidential and personal. It is argued that the use of discursive strategies creates an illusion of intimacy between the reader and …
I Hear from People Who Read Torah: Reported Speech, Genres and Gender Relations in Personal Narrative
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ways a Jewish woman uses different genres in telling her life story. Setting the narrative within its cultural and social contexts enables an examination of narrative as a life story, as well as a mode of creating and expressing changes in women's roles. In her story, the narrator chooses to present herself as a disciple of a religious male leader (a rabbi), a position which allows her to use traditiona…
Mothers know best: Constructing meaning in a narrative event
This paper treats a female storytelling‐round which preceded a family wedding. As is typically the case, the topic was improper gender relation, with wider implications about gender categories and social boundaries transmitted from mothers to daughters. Beginning with a description of the event as seen by a member of the group, the paper progresses to an analysis from a performance perspective treating patterns of participation, genres, and meani…
The Woman Who Was Shot: A Communal Tale
An accidental shooting of a woman in 1951 in the Israeli village of Tsomet has generated many stories that reflect this border community's concerns and fears. The A. analyses the relationship between the event and the community, seeking to understand the many narrative versions of the story by looking closely at the specific sociocultural context of a town settled by Tunisian Jewish immigrants. Different versions of the story reflect the nature o…
The Woman Who Was Shot: A Communal Tale
An accidental shooting of a woman in 1951 in the Israeli village of Tsomet has generated many stories that reflect this border community's concerns and fears. The A. analyses the relationship between the event and the community, seeking to understand the many narrative versions of the story by looking closely at the specific sociocultural context of a town settled by Tunisian Jewish immigrants. Different versions of the story reflect the nature o…
Sweeter than honey: Discourse of reproduction among North‐African Israeli women
Social alignments and gender relations are perpetuated, maintained and even created in verbal interactions. Analyzing speech genres and discourse strategies identified with one gender in a particular culture may therefore contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of gender relations. This paper analyzes a story about childbearing shared by women who immigrated to Israel from Arab countries in the early 1950s, and attempts to show the presen…
Finding one's place: Locale narratives in an Israeli moshav
This paper attempts to show how people use narratives in the process of self definition based on locale. In 1949, Tunisian immigrants are sent to establish a new settlement in the Israeli Negev desert. Stories they share about their experiences in coping with the locale help them to establish a new identity, that of Israeli pioneers. The locale and its markers become chronotopes and help define the place and its settlers as distinct from the neig…
Competence and ideology in performance: Language games, identity and Israeli bureaucracy in personal narrative
This paper treats the performance of a personal narrative about an encounter with Israeli bureaucracy. The narrator told his story to friends in a mixture of languages: Arabic, Hebrew, French and Yiddish. The analysis examines the functions of code switching as a main discourse strategy creating a coherent story with personal and social implications. Grounding the event in its double context, as occurred and as told, within the larger historical‐…
I Hear from People Who Read Torah: Reported Speech, Genres and Gender Relations in Personal Narrative
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ways a Jewish woman uses different genres in telling her life story. Setting the narrative within its cultural and social contexts enables an examination of narrative as a life story, as well as a mode of creating and expressing changes in women's roles. In her story, the narrator chooses to present herself as a disciple of a religious male leader (a rabbi), a position which allows her to use traditiona…
Mothers know best: Constructing meaning in a narrative event
This paper treats a female storytelling‐round which preceded a family wedding. As is typically the case, the topic was improper gender relation, with wider implications about gender categories and social boundaries transmitted from mothers to daughters. Beginning with a description of the event as seen by a member of the group, the paper progresses to an analysis from a performance perspective treating patterns of participation, genres, and meani…
Remember Shushan: Counter-nostalgia in gendered discourse
A naturally occurring conversation between friends about 'the good old days' is treated with special attention to one embedded story, about 'Shushan's wife'. A close analysis of the entire conversation demonstrates how participants may combine nostalgia with counter-nostalgia and resistance to the past. The embedded story thus acquires different, even contradictory, meanings depending on the amount of conversation considered as 'the text'. Follow…
Mock intimacy: Strategies of engagement in Israeli gossip columns
Information about celebrities is abundant in media, including bits of information about marginal events that appear in gossip columns; a media genre not sufficiently studied. This article analyzes Israeli national gossip columns in an attempt to identify stylistic and linguistic ways columnists frame information as confidential and personal. It is argued that the use of discursive strategies creates an illusion of intimacy between the reader and …
To break down the wall: Constructing a literate self
Narrating self-experiences inherently involves tension between real time and remembered time, between narrative event and narrated events. Narrators employ various strategies of footing and voicing to position their current “self” vis-à-vis their former selves and their audience. These characteristics are particularly pertinent in the case of significant life changes, such as learning to read and write for the first time as an adult. This paper t…
Defining Success, Defending Failure: Functions of Reported Talk
This article analyzes the functions of reported talk in interviews conducted with women who participated in a national adult literacy campaign. The distribution of voices helps the interviewees position themselves within the complex social relations and public discourses both during the historical time of action and the present time of interaction. Reported talk is a powerful discursive strategy for positioning, defining, and defending actions; t…
Discourse of (il)literacy: Recollections of Israeli literacy teachers
The concepts of literacy and illiteracy are fluid; their meanings vary according to sociocultural-political trends and language ideologies. Reflections of literacy workers about their involvement in national literacy campaigns are a source of data for such fluctuations. This paper analyzes the recollections of Israeli former soldier-teachers from the time of the campaign, and additional data collected decades later in personal interviews. Close a…
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Narrative (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works)