פרופ' תמר כתריאל  Prof. Tamar Katriel

tamark@construct.haifa.ac.il

 

 

Education: Ph.D. in Communication, University of Washington, 1983

 

Areas of interest: Ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, anthropological approaches to media studies, rhetoric of public discourse in Israel

 

University of Washington presentation:

On Cultural Ways of Speaking

לימודים: דוקטורט בתקשורת, אוניברסיטת וושינגטון, 1983.

 

תחומי עניין: אתנוגרפיה של תקשורת, תקשורת בין-תרבותית, גישות אנתרופולוגיות לחקר המדיה, רטוריקה של השיח הציבורי בישראל.

 

 

The Political as Personal:
Testimonial Rhetoric in Israeli Discourses of Dissent

 

רשימת הפרסומים : List of publications

 

Authored books

  

Katriel, T. (2004) Dialogic Moments: From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli

    Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press (Raphael Patai series on

    Jewish Folklore and Ethnography).

 

Katriel, T. (1999) Milot Mafte'ah: Dfusei Tarbut Vetikshoret Beisrael

     [Keywords: Patterns of Culture and Communication in Israel]. A Hebrew 

     selection of twelve essays covering and integrating work previously

     published in English. Haifa: University of Haifa Press & Zmora-Bitan.

 

Katriel, T. (1997) Performing the Past: A Study of Israeli Settlement

     Museums. N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (series on Communication

     in Everyday Life).

 

Katriel,  T. (1991) Communal Webs: Communication and Culture in

     Contemporary Israel.  Albany: SUNY Press (cross-listed in series on

     Anthropology and Judaic Studies, and series on Human Communication

     Processes). 

 

Katriel , T. (1986) Talking Straight: 'Dugri' Speech in Israeli Sabra Culture.

     Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (series on the Social and

     Cultural Foundations of Language).

 

 

Articles in refereed journals

 

Katriel, T. (1999) "Rethinking the Terms of Social Interaction." Research on

     Language and Social Interaction, 32 (1&2), 85-101.

Katriel, T. (1998) "'Mon histoire est comme ca...'. Recits d'experiences

     personelles narre a la radio israellienne." Cahiers de Litterature Orale,

     44, 207-228 (in French)

Katriel, T. (1997) "Pioneering Women Revisited: Representations of Gender in

     Israeli Settlement Museums." Women Studies International Forum. 20

     (5/6): 675-687.

Katriel, T. (1995) "From 'Context' to 'Contexts' in Intercultural Communication

     Research." In International and Intercultural Communication Annual

     19: 271-284.

 Katriel, T. (1995) "Touring the Land: Trips and Hiking as Secular Pilgrimages

     in Israeli  Culture." Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review 17 (1/2):

     6-13.

Katriel, T. (1994) "Sites of Memory: Discourses of the Past in Israeli

     Pioneering Settlement Museums." The Quarterly Journal of Speech

     80(1): 1-20.

     # Reprinted in D. Ben-Amos & L. Weissberg, eds. (1999) Cultural Memory

     and the Construction of Identity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 

     pp. 99-135.

Katriel, T. (1994) "Performing the Past: Presentational Styles in Israeli

     Settlement Museum Interpretation" Israel Social Science Research

     9(1/2): 1-26.

Katriel, T. (1993) "'Lefargen': A Study in Israeli Semantics of Social Relations."

     Research on Language and Social Interaction 26(1):31-53.

     # Reprinted in Herzog, H. & E. Ben-Raphael, eds. (2001) Language &

     Communication in Israel. Studies of Israeli Society Series, Vol. IX. New

     Jersey: Transaction Press, pp. 31-52.

Katriel, T. (1993) "'Our Future is Where Our Past Is': Studying Heritage

     Museums as a Performative and Ideological Arena." Communication

     Monographs 60(1): 69-75.

Katriel, T. (1993) "Remaking Place: Cultural Production in Israeli

      Pioneering Settlement Museums." History & Memory 5(2): 104-135.

     # Reprinted in Bilu, Y. & Ben-Ari, eds. (1997) Grasping Land: Space and

     Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse and Experience. Albany:

     SUNY Press.

     ## Somewhat expanded Hebrew version in Dvarim Achadim 2 (Israeli 

     Journal of Communication), Fall 1997, pp. 56-78.

Shenhar, A. & T. Katriel (1992) "'I Was There': The Poetics of Narration in

     Tower and Stockade Personal Experience Stories." Jewish Folklore

     and Ethnology Review 14 (1/2): 32-43.

     # Modified version published as "Homa Umigdal (Tower and Stockade):

     Stories in School Education in Israel." Artes Populares 16-17, 1995,

     pp. 714-723.

Katriel, T. & Farrell, T. (1991) "Scrapbooks as Cultural Texts: An American Art

     of Memory." Text and Performance Quarterly 11:1-16.

Blum-Kulka, S. & Katriel, T. (1991) "Nicknaming Practices in Families: A

     Cross-Cultural Perspective."  International and Intercultural 

     Communication Annual 15:58-78.

Katriel, T. & Shenhar, A. (1990) "Tower and Stockade: Dialogic Narration in

     Israeli Settlement Ethos. "The Quarterly Journal of Speech 76(4): 359-380.

Katriel, T. (1990) "Celebrating Language: The 'Hebrew Language Year' as

     Cultural Performance." Text & Performance Quarterly 10(4):321-323.

Katriel, T. (1990/91) "Learning/Teaching about Language and Culture: Some

     Reflections on Research & Pedagogy." Research on Language &

     Social Interaction.  24: 189-207.

Katriel, T. (1989) "Israeli Speechways: An Overview of Discourse Oriented

     Studies,"  Jewish Folklore & Ethnology Review 11 (1/2), 12-18.

Katriel, T. & A. Shenhar (1989) "Rituals of Socialization: Performing Israeli

     Cultural Identity," Text and Performance Quarterly 9(4), 337-341.

Danet, B. & T. Katriel (1989)  "No Two Alike: Play and Aesthetics in

     Collecting." Play & Culture  2(3): 253-277.      

     # Reprinted in Pearce, S., ed. (1994) Interpreting objects and collections.

     London: Routledge, pp. 220-239.

Griefat, Y. & T. Katriel (1989) "'Life Demands 'Musayara': Communication

     and Culture among Arabs in Israel." In International & Intercultural

     Communication Annual, v. 13, 121-138.

Katriel, T.(1988/89) "Research on Language and Social Interaction in Israel:

     An  Overview," Research on Language and Social Interaction  22,

     347-356.

Katriel, T. (1988/89) "'Haxlafot': Rules and Strategies in Children's Swapping

     Exchanges."  Research on Language and Social Interaction  22,

     157-178.

Katriel, T. (1988) "'Gibush': A Study in Israeli Cultural Semantics."

     Anthropological Linguistics  30(2), pp. 199 - 213.

Katriel, T. &  P. Nesher (1987) "Childhood as Rhetoric." Language Arts 64:

     875-885.

Katriel, T. (1987) "I Know Something That You Don't Know": Secret-Sharing

     as a Social Form among Israeli Children." Working Papers in

     Educational Linguistics   3(2): 1-18

     # Revised version published in Research on Language and Social  

      Interaction  24: 141-157, 1991.

Katriel, T. (1987) "Rhetoric in Flames: Fire Inscriptions in Israeli Youth

     Movement Ceremonials."  The Quarterly Journal of Speech  73: 444-59.

     # Revised version published as "Playing with Fire." Play & Culture 1(3),

     205-215, 1988.

     ##To be reprinted in Abuhav, O. Herzog, E. Marx, E. & Goldberg, H., eds.

     Israeli Anthropology, Wayne State University Press.

Katriel, T. & P. Nesher (1987) "'Songs and Homework': The Rhetoric of

     Instruction on Israeli Radio." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 18,

     190-206.

Katriel, T. (1987)"'Bexibudim!':  Ritualized Sharing among Israeli Children."

     Language in Society  16, 305-320.

Nesher, P. & T. Katriel (1986) "Learning Numbers: A Linguistic Perspective."

      Journal for Research in Mathematics Education  17, 100-111.

Katriel, T. & P. Nesher  (1986) "'Gibush': The Rhetoric of Cohesion in Israeli

     School Culture." Comparative Education Review 30, 216-231.

     # Hebrew version in Melilot: Studies in Language Education and Literacy.

     Beit Berl & Ministry of Education, pp.  131-145.

 ## Hebrew version reprinted in Danilov, Y. (ed.) Planning Educational

     Policy: Value Education,  Ministry of Education, 1996.

Katriel, T. (1986)  "On the Vicissitudes of Word Stress in Modern Hebrew."

     Anthropological Linguistics   28 (3), 275-282.

Katriel, T. (1985)  "'Brogez': Ritual and Strategy in Israeli Children's Conflicts," 

     Language in Society   14, 467-490.

Katriel, T. (1985) "Speech in Context: Moving Towards an Integrative

     Approach." Informatologia Yugoslavica  17, 171-176.

Katriel, T. & M. Dascal (1984) "What Do Indicating Devices Indicate?"

     Philosophy &  Rhetoric  17, 1-15.

Katriel, T. & S. Ness (1984)  "Movement as Signification: Amusement Park

     Rides as Cultural Performance."  Semiotic Inquiry 4, 177-194.

Katriel, T. & G. Philipsen (1981) "'What We Need is Communication':

     Communication' as a Cultural Category in some American Speech."

     Communication Monographs  48, 301-317.

     # Reprinted with epilogue in D. Carbaugh, ed. (1990) Cultural

     Communication and Intercultural Contact.  Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum,

     pp. 77-93.

     ## Reprinted in Philipsen, G. (1993) Speaking Culturally. Albany: SUNY

     Press, pp. 65-85.

Dascal, M. & T. Katriel (1979) "Digressions: A Study in Conversational

     Coherence."  PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics & the Theory of

 Literature  4, 203-232.

     # Reprinted in J. Petofi, ed. (1981) Text vs Sentence continued: Papers

     in Textlinguistics, v. 29.  Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 76-95.

            ## Reprinted in M. Dascal (2003) Interpretation and Understanding.   

       Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Nesher, P. & T. Katriel (1978) "Verbalization of First Graders while

     Manipulating Nonverbal Geometrical Materials."  Studies in Science

     Education 1, 7-24.

     # Hebrew version in Studies in Education 13, 1977.

Nesher, P. &  T. Katriel  (1977) "A Semantic Analysis of Addition and

     Subtraction Word Problems in Arithmetic."  Educational Studies in

     Mathematics  8, 251-269.

     # Hebrew version in L. Davis, E. Weinberg & A. Solomonik, eds. (1981)

     Studies in Linguistics & Semiotics.  Haifa: Haifa Univ. Press, pp.

133-151.

Ariel, S. & T. Katriel (1977) "'Range Indicators' in Colloquial Israeli Hebrew." In

     Y. Hayon, ed. Hebrew Annual Review 1, 29-51.

Dascal, M. & T. Katriel (1977) "Between Semantics and Pragmatics - The

     Two Types of  'But': 'Aval'  and  'Ela' in Modern Hebrew."  Theoretical

     Linguistics  4, 143-172.

            # Reprinted in M. Dascal (2003) Interpretation and Understanding.      

       Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

           

Articles in books

 

Katriel, T. (2001) "’From Shore to Shore’: The Holocaust, Clandestine

     Immigration and Israeli Heritage Museums." In B. Zelizer, ed. The

     Holocaust and Visual Culture. Rutgers University Press, pp. 198-211.

Katriel, T. (1998) “The Dialogic Community.” In T. Liebes & J. Curran , eds.

     Media, Culture, Ritual. London: Routledge, pp. 114-135.

Katriel, T. (1997) "'The Tools Tell the Story': Towards an Analysis of the

     Museum Experience." In R. Kubey & B. Ruben, eds. Literacy in the

     Information Age: Current Perspectives. Information and Behavior. Vol. 6.

     New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, pp. 449-461.

Katriel, T. (1995/6) "Narrative Versionen und die Politik der Erinnerung in

     einigen israelischen Siedlungsmuseen." In B. Purin, ed. Wiener Jahrbuch

     fur Judische Gechichte, Kultur & Museumswesen. Wien: Verlag Christian

     Brandstatter, pp. 79-88 (inGerman).

Danet, B. & Katriel, T. (1994)  "Glorious Obsessions, Passionate Lovers and

     Hidden Treasures: Collecting, Metaphor, and the Romantic Ethic." In S.H.

     Riggins, ed. The Socialness of Things: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of

     Objects. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 23-61.

Freyzinger, Z. & T. Katriel (1991) "Functions of Propositional Relators." In

     Alan S.Kaye, ed. Semitic Studies (In honor of Wolf Leslau), Vol. I. 

     Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pp. 449-461.

Katriel, T. (1990) "Between the Promised Land and the Land of Promise:

     Israeli Emigration and Israeli Identity." In Ian Lustick, ed. Books on Israel.

     Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 93-107.

Katriel, T. &  M. Dascal (1989) "Speaker's Commitment and Involvement in

     Discourse." In Y. Tobin, ed. From Sign to Text: A Semiotic View of

     Communication.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 275-295.

            # Reprinted in M. Dascal (2003) Interpretation and Understanding.      

       Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Katriel, T. & R. Sanders (1989) "On the Meta-Communicative Role of

     Epigraphs in Scientific Text Construction." In H. Simons, ed. Rhetoric in

     the Human Sciences.  London: Sage Publications, pp.183-194.

Katriel, T. & Y. Griefat (1988) "Cultural Borrowings: A Sociolinguistic

     Approach."  In J. Hoffman, ed. Arab & Jewish Relations in Israel: A Quest

     in Human Understanding. Bristol, Indiana: Wyndham Hall Press, pp.

     301-331.

Katriel, T. (1985) "Griping as a Verbal Ritual in some Israeli Discourse." In

     M. Dascal, ed.Dialogue: An Interdisciplinary Approach.  Amsterdam: John

     Benjamins, 373-387.

            # Hebrew version in Studies in Education 35, 1982, 151-161.

     ## Reprinted with epilogue in D. Carbaugh, ed. (1990) Cultural

     Communication and Intercultural Contact. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, pp.

     99-117.

    ### Hebrew version reprinted in Abuhav, O. (1988) et al.Israel: A Local

     Anthropology [Israel: Antopologia Mekomit]. Tel-Aviv: Tsherikover, pp.        483-496.

 

 

Articles in conference proceedings

 

Nesher, P. &  T. Katriel (1978)  "Two Cognitive Modes in Arithmetic Word

     Problem Solving." In E. Cohors-Fresenborg & I. Wachsmut, eds.

     Osnabrucker Schriften zur Mathematik. Universitat Osnabruck:

     Fachbereich Mathematik, 1-16.

 

Other scientific publications

 

Katriel, T. (1994) "Die Politik der Representation in Israelischen Pionier

     Museen."  Werkstatt Geschichte 8:76-79 (in German).

Katriel, T. (1994) "Dugri Speech." In Encyclopedia of Language and

     Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp.1069-1071.

     #To be reprinted in Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford: Elsevier

     Science.

Katriel, T. (1990) Rejoinder to "Sandra Pace's "Instructional Mediation in the

    Classroom: How Teacher Talk Influences Student Learning," In Through

     the Looking Glass: Children and Health Promotion. Edited by J. Ross & V.

     Bergum, Canadian Public Health Association, pp.102-104.

 

Review article

 

Katriel, T. (1998): "Dialogue Analysis" as discussed in     Weigand, E., ed.,Concepts of dialogue considered from the perspective of different disciplines (MaxNiemeyer  Verlag, 1994); Hundsnurscher, F. & E. Weigand, eds., Future perspectives of dialogue analysis (Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1995); Bazzanella, C., ed., Repetition in dialogue  (Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996). Journal of Pragmatics 29: 206-208.

 

Book reviews

 

Katriel, T. (forthcoming) Review of R. Finnegan, Communicating: The                   Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection (London: Routledge, 2002).  Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Katriel, T. (2004) Review of A. Kama, The Newspaper and the Closet:           Israeli Gay Men's Communication Patterns. (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz    Hameuchad, 2003) Israeli Sociology (in Hebrew), pp. 204-206.

Katriel, T. (2003) Review of M. Feige One Space, Two Places: Gush

Emunim, Peace Now and the Construction of Israeli Space. (Jerusalem: Magnes, 2003). Iyunim Bitkumat Israel: Studies in Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel (in Hebrew), vol. 13, pp. 427-35 (in Hebrew).

Katriel, T. (2002) Review of N. Gertz. Myths in Israeli Culture: Captive           

of a Dream  (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000). Israel Studies Forum

17(2):135-139.

Katriel, T. (1998) Review of M. Silverstein & G. Urban, eds. Natural Histories    Of Discourse  (Chicago University Press, 1996). Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 8(1).

Katriel, T. (1994) Review of B. Zelizer Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory (University of  Chicago Press, 1992). International Journal of Public Opinion Research 6(1): 77-80.

Katriel, T. (1993) Review of H. Hazan A Paradoxical Community: The    Emergence of a Social World in an Urban Renewal Setting  (JAI Press 1990). Israel Studies Bulletin, 21-23.

Katriel, T. (1993) Review of B. Spolsky and R.L. Cooper The Languages of

  Jerusalem. (Oxford University Press 1991) International Journal of     Middle

 

East Studies  25:144-145.

Katriel, T. (1993) Review of M. Hecht, M.J. Collier and S. Ribeau African               American  Communication: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Interpretation

  (Sage Publications 1993) Language, Culture and Curriculum  6(2): 193-196.

Katriel, T. (1992) Review of A. Grimshaw (ed.) Conflict Talk: Sociolinguistic

  Investigations of Arguments in Conversations  (Cambridge University Press    1990). Language in Society 21(2):312-316.

 

Ethnographic video:

 

Tamar Katriel and Shimon Zafrir (1991) Here It All Began: A Look at Museum Interpretation. Based on fieldwork conducted in two kibbutz museums.

 

 

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