Elda Weizman

List of John Benjamins publications for which Elda Weizman plays a role.

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Dialogicity in Political Discourse

Edited by Elda Weizman and Zohar Livnat

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 13:5 (2022) v, 154 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Elda Weizman

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 307] 2019. vi, 297 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups

Edited by Anita Fetzer, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 259] 2015. vi, 278 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Communication Studies | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

Weizman, Elda and Ayelet Kohn 2022 Resemblance in comments/posts interaction: Forms and functions of dialogicityDialogicity in Political Discourse, Weizman, Elda and Zohar Livnat (eds.), pp. 861–884 | Article
This paper studies dialogicity in posts and their comments. Focusing on political slogans in the Facebook page of Israel PM Binyamin Netanyahu, we examine the ways comments meta-represent the posts in various degrees of resemblance. Starting with the premise that comments/post interactions are… read more
Weizman, Elda and Zohar Livnat 2022 Dialogic meaning-making in political settings: An introductionDialogicity in Political Discourse, Weizman, Elda and Zohar Livnat (eds.), pp. 731–746 | Review article
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… read more
Weizman, Elda and Anita Fetzer 2019 IntroductionThe Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
Weizman, Elda and Marjut Johansson 2019 Constructing ordinariness in online commenting in Hebrew1 and FinnishThe Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 209–236 | Chapter
This chapter studies how ‘ordinariness’ and mostly ‘ordinary’ are being constructed in on-line commenting in Hebrew and Finnish. Starting with the premise that “being ordinary” is dynamically and co-operatively constructed, we adopt the notion of “positioning” to account for the ways ordinary… read more
The discussion in this paper proposes to shed light on a hitherto under-researched area: commenting on in-memoriam columns. Borrowing the basic notions of deliberative and epidictic genres from classical rhetoric and accommodating them to a pragmatic study of online interaction between commenters… read more
Berlin, Lawrence N., Elda Weizman and Anita Fetzer 2015 IntroductionThe Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups, Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman 2015 Following up across contexts and discourse domains: IntroductionFollow-ups in Political Discourse: Explorations across contexts and discourse domains, Weizman, Elda and Anita Fetzer (eds.), pp. ix–xx | Article
Weizman, Elda 2015 Irony in and through follow-ups: Talk and meta-talk in online commenting in the Israeli contextThe Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups, Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin (eds.), pp. 173–194 | Article
This study examines how irony is evaluated and practiced in online commenting. Specifically, it explores readers’ perceptions of irony manifest in their comments on ironic opinion editorials, and ironic comments following-up on ironic op-eds. Against the background of readers’ judgmental… read more
The present discussion starts with the premise that irony positions the ironist as adversarial vis-à-vis the target of irony, and expands on the notion of ironic positioning. Drawing on a close examination of politicians’ follow-ups to direct and ironic challenges, it will be argued that the… read more
Weizman, Elda 2007 Quantity scales towards culture-specific profiles of discourse normsDialogue and Culture, Grein, Marion and Edda Weigand (eds.), pp. 141–152 | Article
Weizman, Elda, Irit Levi and Isaac Schneebaum 2007 Variation in interviewing styles: Challenge and support in Al-Jazeera and on Israeli televisionPolitical Discourse in the Media: Cross-cultural perspectives, Fetzer, Anita and Gerda Eva Lauerbach (eds.), pp. 197–223 | Article
Weizman, Elda 2004 Interpreting emotions in literary dialogueEmotion in Dialogic Interaction: Advances in the complex, Weigand, Edda (ed.), pp. 245 ff. | Article
Weizman, Elda 2001 Addresser, addressee and target: Negotiating roles through ironic criticismNegotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, Weigand, Edda and Marcelo Dascal † (eds.), pp. 125–137 | Article
Weizman, Elda 2000 Chesterman, Andrew. 1998. Contrastive Functional AnalysisTarget 12:2, pp. 378–381 | Review
Weizman, Elda 1997 Review of Barbe (1991): Irony in ContextPragmatics & Cognition 5:2, pp. 371–378 | Review
Weizman, Elda and Shoshana Blum-Kulka 1992 Ordinary MisunderstandingCurrent Advances in Semantic Theory, Stamenov, Maxim I. (ed.), pp. 417 ff. | Article
Dascal, Marcelo † and Elda Weizman 1987 3. Contextual exploitation of interpretation clues in text understanding: An integrated modelThe Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference, Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (eds.), pp. 31 ff. | Chapter