Language and Communication in Israel: Studies of Israeli Society

ISBN-13: 9781560009986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 656 str.

Hanna Herzog; Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Opis

The sociology of language and the sociology of communication are well-established fields in Israeli sociology, but it is only recently that their departments have grown vigorously in Israel's various universities. They are long-standing, respected disciplines in international sociology, as is evidenced by their academic associations and the reputation of their specialized journals. Language and Communication in Israel, the ninth volume of the Studies of Israeli Society series, presents a broad range of the various approaches and questions that preoccupy Israel's sociologists of language and communication. The collection starts with studies that focus on the presence of language and communication in daily life. Subsequent chapters analyze the relation of language and communication to social and cultural pluralism. Also included is a study of linguistic and communication aspects of politics and elections. A special chapter consists of an examination of the role of language and communication in the Israeli-Arab conflict and an analysis of the intermingling of mass media and the state. In their introduction, the editors discuss each of the chapters under the guidance of a key question, namely, the significance of the studies presented for the profile of the Israeli society, on the one hand, and of the Israeli scholarship of these fields, on the other. Two concluding chapters are also included in this landmark volume, one by Joshua A. Fishman and one by Elihu Katz. Each author emphasizes what he thinks is of major importance to the future of the sociology of language and the sociology of communication. Language and Communication in Israel is an enlightening study of two growing fields. It is essential reading for scholars of linguistics and communications as well as for sociologists and Israeli studies specialists. Hanna Herzog is associate professor in the department of sociology at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Political Ethnicity, Contest of Symbols, Realistic Women, and Gendering Politics.

Spis treści

1: Introduction; 1: The Study of Language and Communication in Israeli Social Sciences; 2: Language and Communication in Daily Life; 2: Lefargen: A Study in Israeli Semantics of Social Relations; 3: That’s How We Were: Individual, Group, and Collective in the Tel Aviv of “Late Summer Blues”; 4: “You Gotta Know How to Tell a Story”: Telling Tales, and Tellers in American and Israeli Narrative Events at Dinner; 5: In-Group Humor of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel; 6: A Symbolic Interactionist User’s Guide to the Answering Machine: 22 Reflections on Vocal Encounters in an Emerging Social World; 3: Language in a Pluralistic Society; 7: A Sociological Paradigm of Bilingualism: English, French, Yiddish, and Arabic in Israel 1; 8: Attitudes toward Foreign Words in Contemporary Hebrew; 9: Bilingualism in a Moroccan Settlement in the South of Israel 1; 10: “Secularism Is the Root of All Evil”: The Haredi Response to Crime and Delinquency; 11: The Construction of Identity in a Divided Palestinian Village: Sociolinguistic Evidence; 12: Jews and Arabs in Israel: The Cultural Convergence of Divergent Identities; 4: Electronic Media and Social Diversity; 13: Twenty Years of Television in Israel: Are There Long-Run Effects on Values and Cultural Practices?; 14: Video Watching and Its Societal Functions for Small-Town Adolescents in Israel; 15: VCR Narrowcasting in the Kibbutz *; 5: In Times of Elections; 16: Voters as Consumers: Audience Perspectives on the Election Broadcasts; 17: Was It on the Agenda? The Hidden Agenda of the 1988 Campaign; 18: The Silenced Majority: Women in Israel’s 1988 Television Election Campaign; 6: In the Shadow of the Israeli-Arab Conflict; 19: Decoding Television News: The Political Discourse of Israeli Hawks and Doves; 20: The Intifada as a Meta-Televisual Dialogue; 21: One of the Bloodiest Days: A Comparative Analysis of Open and Closed Television News; 22: Terrorism as Theater: Mass Media and Redefinition of Image; 7: Society, State, and Mass Media; 23: Protest, Television, Newspapers, and the Public: Who Influences Whom?; 24: Inherent Contradictions of Democracy: Illustrations from National Broadcasting Corporations; 25: The In/Outsiders—Political Control on Media in Israel: A Theoretical Framework; 26: Speech Presentation in the Israeli News: Ideological Constraints and Rhetorical Strategies 1; 27: The Rabin Myth and the Press: Reconstruction of the Israeli Collective Identity; 8: Thinking about the Future; 28: Greetings from a Viewer from Afar: The Objectives of Israel’s Sociology of Language; 29: An Agenda for the Sociology of Communication in Israel

O autorze

Hanna Herzog