A watermelon without seeds: A case study in rhetorical rationality

Neuman, Yair; Lurie, Yotam; Rosenthal, Michele

doi:10.1515/text.2001.011

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“…Rabbi Yitzhak is widely regarded as a prominent figure in the movement for religious revival, also known as the teshuvah movement (see Bekerman and Neuman 2001;Neuman and Levi 2003;Neuman, Lurie, and Rosenthal 2001). The teshuvah movement in Israel began at the end of the 1960s within three different population groups of hozrim biteshuvah (those returning to religion, penitents): people who immigrated from the…”

Section: Field and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deep healing: ritual healing in the teshuvah movement

Sharabi

2014

Anthropology & Medicine

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Based on an ethnographic analysis of religious healing rituals in Israel, this paper addresses the question of how healer-client relations are structured on these rituals. An examination of what takes place at the rallies held by Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak indicates that, apart from the regular blessings, which can be referred to as ordinary healing, there are some ritual events that can be referred to as 'deep healing'. The current paper demonstrates how deep healing rituals are generally conducted in severe cases through give-and-take between the rabbi and the person upon whom the blessing is bestowed, and that they are linked to relationships between people and the ethic of mutual support.

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Deep healing: ritual healing in the teshuvah movement

Sharabi

2014

Anthropology & Medicine

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“…Drawing on a rhetorical perspective (Austin 1962;Neuman et al 2001;Neuman et al 2002), which presupposes talk to be an instrument in the hands of people -'language that aims to achieve social goals' : 562, my emphasis) -I analyzed the metaphors to show how they indicate the positions subjects assume within the organizational context of change. The two 'root' metaphors (to use Srivastva and Barrett's 1988 term) emerged naturally in the assistant principal's interview.…”

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Assuming positions: Organizational change as mediated through metaphors

Argaman¹

2007

Semiotica

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This paper presents the notion that a metaphor is one of the discursive tools whereby people position themselves with regard to a change process. Based on Sebeok and Danesi's theory, I analyze two 'root' metaphors (articulated by an interviewee) to illustrate the assumption of positions and counterpositions and the way metaphors mediate this positioning. The paper suggests that in the specific context of organizational change, positioning plays the social role of denoting for people (who are considered members of this new social experience) the expected modes of behavior.

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“…1 Framed around the tenets of Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, critical discourse studies are transdisciplinary and draw their methodology and insights from various disciplines including anthropology, psychology, communication, and linguistics. Whereas a large percentage of critical discourse studies have focused on the discourse of media and politics (Chilton 2004; Chilton and Schaffner 1997), linguistic studies of religious discourse have continued in the periphery, typically centering on the analysis of the discursive means used in sermons (e.g., Cipriani 2002; Garner 2007; Muchnik 2005; Neuman, Lurie, and Rosenthal 2001; Singh and Thuraisingam 2011). Increasingly more religious scholars are calling for the application of transdisciplinary approaches, especially linguistic ones, to the study of religion (e.g., Wijsen 2013).…”

Section: Critical Discourse Analysis and Religious Textsmentioning

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Power, ideology, and women’s ordination: Discursive strategies in three Roman Catholic documents

Kim

Matiko

2019

Critical Research on Religion

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This article analyzes through a linguistic lens three official documents of the Roman Catholic Church on women’s ordination; it also identifies various discursive tactics utilized by text creators to reinforce gender hierarchy within the Church. Drawing from Fairclough’s three dimensional discourse framework, we examine the ideological message embedded in the linguistic features and the role each text plays within a matrix of power relations. Through close readings of Inter Insigniores: On the Question of Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis of John Paul II, and Women and the Priesthood, we demonstrate how discourse analysis can serve as a useful tool for identifying logical fallacies, inconsistencies, dilemmas, and manipulative tactics in religious discourses.

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A watermelon without seeds: A case study in rhetorical rationality

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Deep healing: ritual healing in the teshuvah movement

Deep healing: ritual healing in the teshuvah movement

Assuming positions: Organizational change as mediated through metaphors

Power, ideology, and women’s ordination: Discursive strategies in three Roman Catholic documents

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