Leon Shor
List of John Benjamins publications in which Leon Shor is involved.
2026 Turn-initial ki ‘because’-clauses as a rhetorical responsive practice in Hebrew Facebook comments Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines the pragmatic-rhetorical functions of turn-initial Hebrew ki ‘because’-clauses in readers’ comments on politicians’ Facebook posts. An analysis of 100 ki-clauses, responding to either politicians’ posts or comments by other commenters, reveals that they provide explanations… read more
2025 Eye closures in spoken Hebrew: Conversational functions and meaning semiosis Pragmatics 35:4, pp. 604–627 | Article
The present study focuses on eye closure (EC) as a communicative facial gesture in Israeli Hebrew media talk and pays particular attention to its coordination with co-expressive verbal, prosodic, and embodied resources. Drawing on the interactional approach to language and embodied action, the… read more
2024 “Does being pretty help?”: The use of negation in debut interviews with female Israeli politicians Journal of Language and Politics 23:2, pp. 239–260 | Article
The article analyzes debut interviews of female Israeli politicians, in which the interviewees are faced with questions or statements that imply that their gender, ethnicity or background prevent them from fulfilling their function as politicians successfully, in accordance with the “Gendered… read more
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
2020 Chapter 16. Negation in Modern Hebrew Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 583–622 | Chapter
This chapter examines the expression of negation in spontaneous spoken Modern Hebrew. It provides a quantitative description of syntactic negation in the Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH) to address syntactic, pragmatic, and prosodic properties of negation. The study shows that in addition… read more