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Elda Weizman, is Professor Emerita at Bar Ilan University, where she taught cross-cultural pragmatics and the theory of translation at the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Her research interests, anchored in socio-pragmatics, focus on the interpretation of indirectness in the electronic media in a cross-cultural perspective.

She further conducted, with Prof. Lea Kozminsky, a research on the pragmatics of requests in self advocacy by students with learning disabilities, anchored in her previous work on indirect requests. Prof. Weizman is currently conducting a comparative corpus-based cross-cultural research on irony in on-line commenting and op-eds. She has recently received a 3-year Gif grant on The construction of ordinariness in mediated public talk".

Research:

  • Cross-cultural pragmatics
  • Political and media discourse
  • corpus studies
  • News interviews
  • cultural variation in the two/vous distinction
  • Comparative pragmatic analysis in Hebrew, French and English and implications for translation
  • Pragmatic analysis of literary texts and implications for translation;
  • Self advocacy

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

… → Jun 1982

Award Date: 1 Jun 1982

Research

  • Fields of Interest
  • Cross-cultural pragmatics
  • Political and media discourse
  • corpus studies
  • News interviews
  • cultural variation in the two/vous distinction
  • Comparative pragmatic analysis in Hebrew, French and English
  • Pragmatic analysis of literary texts
  • translation
  • Self advocacy

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