Zohar Livnat
Biographic Data
| ID | 748022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zohar Livnat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zohar |
| FAMILY NAME | Livnat |
| SIGNATURE | LIVNAT Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6689-6709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Turn-initial ki ‘because’-clauses as a rhetorical responsive practice in Hebrew Facebook comments
This study examines the pragmatic-rhetorical functions of turn-initial Hebrew ki ‘because’-clauses in readers’ comments on politicians’ Facebook posts. An analysis of 100 ki -clauses, responding to either politicians’ posts or comments by other commenters, reveals that they provide explanations and justifications for claims and positions regarding a particular action, general conduct or way of thinking of the previous speaker, or a third party. I…
Specified compliments in comments to politicians’ Facebook posts: Champion, loser, or both
This article discusses “specified compliments” consisting of a positive evaluation of an ability or achievement; a preposition; and an area of expertise or excellence, e.g. “experts in security”. An analysis of 74 examples in comments on politicians’ Facebook posts during 2020–2021 revealed that specified compliments convey a predominantly ironic meaning in order to criticize the complimentee. Three different categories of ironic specified compli…
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse
Based on Buber’s dialogic philosophy, ideas from the ethics of dialogue and politeness theory, we analyze letters written by members of an Israeli organization named Besod Siach – who come from both the left and right wings, are both religious and secular, who decided to broaden and deepen the dialogue between different groups in Israeli society against the backdrop of the polarization, alienation and violence threatening the state’s integrity an…
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings: An introduction
The goal of this special issue is to investigate the forms and functions of dialogicity in political discourse. Starting with the premise that the boundaries between monologue and dialogue are blurred in contemporary political discourse in general and in mediated political discourse in particular, it sets up to explore how dialogical features, manifest in situated discourse in various degrees of explicitness, are exploited by participants in the …
Monika Bednarek. 2018. Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue
This article reviews Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue 9781108559553
Indexing membership via responses to irony: Communication competence in Israeli radio call-in shows
Morality, loyalty and eloquence: Conversational challenges and resources in a televised confrontational dialogue
The new dialogic, conversational nature of television broadcast news (Hamo, 2009) poses a challenge to traditional commentators, who are forced to move from an authoritative monologue to a confrontational dialogue that requires additional flexibility and conversational skills. The paper focuses on an Israeli case study which presents a confrontational dialogue in which one of the discussants is an experienced military correspondent and commentato…
Desirable and undesirable disagreements: Jewish women studying the talmudic texts
The interpersonal strand of political speech: Recruiting the audience in PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s speeches
The present study offers an underlying theoretical framework for examining political speeches from a rhetorical perspective. This framework is based on systemic functional linguistics developed by Halliday (most recently updated by Halliday and Matthiessen 2014), and includes discourse structures suggested by later authors. We suggest that the interpersonal stratum of meaning, through which we manage social relations, represents a powerful resour…
Negotiating Norms of Discussion in the Public Arena: The Use of Irony in Israeli Political Radio Phone-In Programs
Phone-in radio programs are part of the public sphere and thus require open access, rationality, and practicality. Simultaneously, they are a media product, which requires entertaining content. We demonstrate these demands through the analysis of interactional irony in Israeli political radio phone-ins. From an emic perspective, callers see irony as detrimental to the discussions, yet hosts and regular callers use it to make entertaining interact…
The discourse marker axshav ('now') in spontaneous spoken Hebrew: Discursive and prosodic features
Rapport in Negotiation: The Contribution of the Verbal Channel
This study examined the contribution of verbal behavior to the creation of rapport in negotiation, while methodologically addressing the issue of dependence between dyadic measures, which is inherent to the concept of rapport, with the Actor-Partner Interdependence model. The approach adopted is substantially different from that of past research, which emphasized the contribution of nonverbal behavior to rapport and used averaged rapport to asses…
Making analogy work in the public arena
This paper discusses the Israeli newspaper coverage of a single event of considerable public significance in the Israeli-Palestinian context. A dominant analogy in the coverage that played various argumentative roles and its responses are analyzed. When trying to answer the question of how to respond to an analogy put forward by a participant in a communication, various methods available to the interlocutor are mentioned, two of which are shown t…
Quantity, truthfulness and ironic effect
Impersonality and Grammatical Metaphors in Scientific Discourse: The Rhetorical Perspective
Corpus-based research of scientific articles in the social sciences in Hebrew demonstrates different kinds of impersonal constructions characteristic of this genre, among them various uses of grammatical metaphors. An analysis of this data from the rhetorical perspective makes it possible to point to the rhetorical roles performed by impersonal constructions. They serve the 'rhetoric of objectivity' and the ethos of the credible and uninvolved re…
On verbal irony, meta-linguistic knowledge and echoic interpretation
The aim of this paper is to examine some actual examples of written verbal irony that contain apposition. Meta-linguistic knowledge about apposition as a syntactic structure is claimed to be involved in the interpretation process of the utterance and especially in recognizing the victim of the irony. This discussion demonstrates the interdependence between apposition, its echoic quality in particular cases, and the victim of the irony. Since synt…
From Epistemic to Deontic Modality: Evidence From Hebrew
Rapport in Negotiation: The Contribution of the Verbal Channel
This study examined the contribution of verbal behavior to the creation of rapport in negotiation, while methodologically addressing the issue of dependence between dyadic measures, which is inherent to the concept of rapport, with the Actor-Partner Interdependence model. The approach adopted is substantially different from that of past research, which emphasized the contribution of nonverbal behavior to rapport and used averaged rapport to asses…
Quantity, truthfulness and ironic effect
Morality, loyalty and eloquence: Conversational challenges and resources in a televised confrontational dialogue
The new dialogic, conversational nature of television broadcast news (Hamo, 2009) poses a challenge to traditional commentators, who are forced to move from an authoritative monologue to a confrontational dialogue that requires additional flexibility and conversational skills. The paper focuses on an Israeli case study which presents a confrontational dialogue in which one of the discussants is an experienced military correspondent and commentato…
Desirable and undesirable disagreements: Jewish women studying the talmudic texts
The discourse marker axshav ('now') in spontaneous spoken Hebrew: Discursive and prosodic features
Making analogy work in the public arena
This paper discusses the Israeli newspaper coverage of a single event of considerable public significance in the Israeli-Palestinian context. A dominant analogy in the coverage that played various argumentative roles and its responses are analyzed. When trying to answer the question of how to respond to an analogy put forward by a participant in a communication, various methods available to the interlocutor are mentioned, two of which are shown t…
From Epistemic to Deontic Modality: Evidence From Hebrew
On verbal irony, meta-linguistic knowledge and echoic interpretation
The aim of this paper is to examine some actual examples of written verbal irony that contain apposition. Meta-linguistic knowledge about apposition as a syntactic structure is claimed to be involved in the interpretation process of the utterance and especially in recognizing the victim of the irony. This discussion demonstrates the interdependence between apposition, its echoic quality in particular cases, and the victim of the irony. Since synt…
Impersonality and Grammatical Metaphors in Scientific Discourse: The Rhetorical Perspective
Corpus-based research of scientific articles in the social sciences in Hebrew demonstrates different kinds of impersonal constructions characteristic of this genre, among them various uses of grammatical metaphors. An analysis of this data from the rhetorical perspective makes it possible to point to the rhetorical roles performed by impersonal constructions. They serve the 'rhetoric of objectivity' and the ethos of the credible and uninvolved re…
Making analogy work in the public arena
This paper discusses the Israeli newspaper coverage of a single event of considerable public significance in the Israeli-Palestinian context. A dominant analogy in the coverage that played various argumentative roles and its responses are analyzed. When trying to answer the question of how to respond to an analogy put forward by a participant in a communication, various methods available to the interlocutor are mentioned, two of which are shown t…
Quantity, truthfulness and ironic effect
Rapport in Negotiation: The Contribution of the Verbal Channel
This study examined the contribution of verbal behavior to the creation of rapport in negotiation, while methodologically addressing the issue of dependence between dyadic measures, which is inherent to the concept of rapport, with the Actor-Partner Interdependence model. The approach adopted is substantially different from that of past research, which emphasized the contribution of nonverbal behavior to rapport and used averaged rapport to asses…
Negotiating Norms of Discussion in the Public Arena: The Use of Irony in Israeli Political Radio Phone-In Programs
Phone-in radio programs are part of the public sphere and thus require open access, rationality, and practicality. Simultaneously, they are a media product, which requires entertaining content. We demonstrate these demands through the analysis of interactional irony in Israeli political radio phone-ins. From an emic perspective, callers see irony as detrimental to the discussions, yet hosts and regular callers use it to make entertaining interact…
The discourse marker axshav ('now') in spontaneous spoken Hebrew: Discursive and prosodic features
The interpersonal strand of political speech: Recruiting the audience in PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s speeches
The present study offers an underlying theoretical framework for examining political speeches from a rhetorical perspective. This framework is based on systemic functional linguistics developed by Halliday (most recently updated by Halliday and Matthiessen 2014), and includes discourse structures suggested by later authors. We suggest that the interpersonal stratum of meaning, through which we manage social relations, represents a powerful resour…
Indexing membership via responses to irony: Communication competence in Israeli radio call-in shows
Morality, loyalty and eloquence: Conversational challenges and resources in a televised confrontational dialogue
The new dialogic, conversational nature of television broadcast news (Hamo, 2009) poses a challenge to traditional commentators, who are forced to move from an authoritative monologue to a confrontational dialogue that requires additional flexibility and conversational skills. The paper focuses on an Israeli case study which presents a confrontational dialogue in which one of the discussants is an experienced military correspondent and commentato…
Desirable and undesirable disagreements: Jewish women studying the talmudic texts
Monika Bednarek. 2018. Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue
This article reviews Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue 9781108559553
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse
Based on Buber’s dialogic philosophy, ideas from the ethics of dialogue and politeness theory, we analyze letters written by members of an Israeli organization named Besod Siach – who come from both the left and right wings, are both religious and secular, who decided to broaden and deepen the dialogue between different groups in Israeli society against the backdrop of the polarization, alienation and violence threatening the state’s integrity an…
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings: An introduction
The goal of this special issue is to investigate the forms and functions of dialogicity in political discourse. Starting with the premise that the boundaries between monologue and dialogue are blurred in contemporary political discourse in general and in mediated political discourse in particular, it sets up to explore how dialogical features, manifest in situated discourse in various degrees of explicitness, are exploited by participants in the …
Specified compliments in comments to politicians’ Facebook posts: Champion, loser, or both
This article discusses “specified compliments” consisting of a positive evaluation of an ability or achievement; a preposition; and an area of expertise or excellence, e.g. “experts in security”. An analysis of 74 examples in comments on politicians’ Facebook posts during 2020–2021 revealed that specified compliments convey a predominantly ironic meaning in order to criticize the complimentee. Three different categories of ironic specified compli…
Turn-initial ki ‘because’-clauses as a rhetorical responsive practice in Hebrew Facebook comments
This study examines the pragmatic-rhetorical functions of turn-initial Hebrew ki ‘because’-clauses in readers’ comments on politicians’ Facebook posts. An analysis of 100 ki -clauses, responding to either politicians’ posts or comments by other commenters, reveals that they provide explanations and justifications for claims and positions regarding a particular action, general conduct or way of thinking of the previous speaker, or a third party. I…
Linguistics (14 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)