Language and Communication in Israel

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

Biography

Hanna Herzog