Abstract
This study examines the news broadcasts of the Israeli TV Channel 2. It focuses on coverage of instances in which Haredi 'Jewish ultra-Orthodox' individuals are accused of committing immoral acts such as child abuse, hit and run accident and rape. I argue that in all of these instances, the moral otherness of these individuals is linked to their Haredi identity, thus intensifying the negativesectoral otherness of the entire Haredi community. I discuss tagging, visual devices and especially discursive strategies used to link individual moral otherness to sectoral otherness at various levels of directness. Additionally, I analyze online comments written by viewers of the items discussed, which indicate the identification and interpretation of implications and implicatures conveyed by this rhetorical linkage.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 161-183 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Journal of Language and Politics |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 18 Apr 2019 |
Keywords
- Discursive strategies
- Haredi(m)
- Implicatures
- Media
- Moral otherness
- News discourse
- Online comments
- Religious minorities
- Sectoral otherness
- Ultra-Orthodox
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- History
- Sociology and Political Science
- Linguistics and Language