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- Title
Constructing a genre: Hebrew ('ani) lo yode'a / lo yoda'at ‘(I) don’t know’ on Israeli political radio phone-ins.
- Authors
Maschler, Yael; Dori-Hacohen, Gonen
- Abstract
We explore employment of the Hebrew construction ('ani) lo yode'a / lo yoda'at (lit ‘[I] not m/f-sg.know’), roughly equivalent to English ‘I don’t know’, by callers and hosts in 80 interactions on Israeli political radio phone-in programs, as compared with its functions in casual conversation. Five uses were attested in the corpus of radio phone-ins and correlated with the syntactic form of complementation (if available) for each token of the construction: (i) expressing literal lack of knowledge; (ii) expressing epistemic stance of uncertainty / hedging; (iii) gaining cognitive processing time in the midst of self-repair; (iv) expressing affective stance of contempt or criticism; and (v) avoidance strategies. While most of these uses are common to both genres, some are unattested in casual conversation. By exploring the functions of the ('ani) lo yode'a / lo yoda'at construction and their distribution according to institutional role, the study (i) sheds further light on the use of the construction and its evolvement through use; and (ii) shows how hosts and callers exploit this specific construction in ways that establish the Israeli political radio phone-in institutional genre.
- Subjects
RADIO call-in programs; HEBREW verbs; RADIO broadcasting &; politics; AVOIDANCE (Psychology); INTERACTIONAL view theory (Communication); EMOTIVE (Linguistics); RADIO talk programs
- Publication
Text & Talk, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 5, p575
- ISSN
1860-7330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/text-2018-0015