Michal Marmorstein
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michal Marmorstein plays a role.
2023 Self-repeat as a multimodal retraction practice: Evidence from Hebrew conversation Meaning in Interaction: Studies in memory of Jack Bilmes, Deppermann, Arnulf and Elwys De Stefani (eds.), pp. 132–166 | Article
The paper focuses on a particular practice of self-repeat through which participants retract their prior formulations, and explores its multimodal design and use in the dynamic construction of meaning in Hebrew conversation. Drawing on interactional approaches to language and embodied action, we… read more
2022 Responses within activities: Alignment via Egyptian Arabic ʔāh ‘yeah’ in extended turns Interactional Linguistics 2:1, pp. 42–78 | Article
Large conversational activities (e.g., storytelling) necessitate a suspension of ordinary turn-taking rules. In the resulting constellation of main speaker and recipient, minimal displays of cooperative recipiency become relevant at particular junctures. We investigate this mechanism by focusing… read more
2021 Discourse markers as a lens to variation across speech and writing: Egyptian Arabic yaʕni ‘it means’ as a case study Functions of Language 28:2, pp. 153–182 | Article
This paper explores the use of the discourse marker (DM) yaʕni (lit. ‘it means’) in spoken and written Egyptian-Cairene Arabic. The DM yaʕni originates in conversational interaction and is symbiotic with its socio-cognitive constraints and goals: it serves to facilitate the verbalization of new… read more
2018 Reconsidering the ‘perfect’–‘imperfect’ opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal system Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives, Tosco, Mauro (ed.), pp. 61–83 | Chapter
A basic premise that prevails in Western grammatical descriptions is that the Classical Arabic verbal system is based on an asymmetrical opposition between two basic components: the ‘perfect’ faʿala and the ‘imperfect’ yafʿalu. The present study re-examines the validity of this premise, in view of… read more
