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    On verbal irony, meta-linguistic knowledge and echoic interpretation.Zohar Livnat - 2004 - Pragmatics and Cognition 12 (1):57-70.
    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 syntactic structure may serve as a cue to indirect meaning, pointing at the specific (...)
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    The Concept of Scientific Fact: Perelman and Beyond.Zohar Livnat - 2009 - Argumentation 23 (3):375-386.
    This paper applies the argumentative perspective to the concept of scientific fact by combining the rhetorical and the sociological perspectives. The scientific fact is presented as an entity having both an epistemic and a social meaning, and the scientific paper is presented as a discourse that has both an epistemic value and role related to knowledge and to the description of the ‘world,’ and a social value, fulfilling social roles within its relevant discourse community. The discussion leads to some insights (...)
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    Specified compliments in comments to politicians’ Facebook posts.Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Zohar Livnat - 2024 - Pragmatics and Cognition 31 (2):339-366.
    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 compliments are identified: (1) compliments where the area of expertise is positive and are interpreted as ironical based on (...)
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    Analyzing the Language of an Adapted Primary Literature Article.Moriah Ariely, Zohar Livnat & Anat Yarden - 2019 - Science & Education 28 (1-2):63-85.
    Learning the unique linguistic forms and structures that construct and communicate scientific principles, knowledge, and beliefs is important for developing students’ disciplinary literacy. The use of scientific language is apparent in the texts that scientists produce to communicate their findings to other scientists—the research articles. Texts are underused in the science classroom and the texts that students do read often do not reflect the core attributes of authentic scientific reasoning. Adapted primary literature refers to an educational genre that enables the (...)
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    Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse.Ohala Spokoiny & Zohar Livnat - 2022 - Pragmatics and Society 13 (5):837-860.
    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 and democratic foundations.
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    Dialogic meaning-making in political settings : An introduction.Elda Weizman & Zohar Livnat - 2022 - Pragmatics and Society 13 (5):731-746.
    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 political arena, be they professional politicians, semi-professional activists or ordinary people, for various purposes.
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