Accounts of violence from Arabs and Israelis on Nightline

Discourse and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-161

  Buttny, Richard ^a   Ellis, Donald G ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounts; Affect; Broadcast news interviews; Discourse of violence; Middle East conflict; Positioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847409230     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926507073371     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Alston, W.P. (1967) 'Emotion and Feeling', in P. Edwards (ed.) Encyclopedia of Philosophy, pp. 479 - 486. New York: Macmillan.
2. Atkinson, J.M. and Drew, P. (1979) Order in Court: The Organization of Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings. Atlantic Highland, NJ: Humanities Press.
3. Besnier, N. (1990) 'Language and Affect', Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 419 - 451.
4. Buttny, R. (1993) Social Accountability in Communication. London: Sage.
5. Buttny, R. (2004) Talking Problems: Studies on Discursive Construction. Albany: State University of New York Press.
6. Clayman, S. and Heritage, J. (2002) The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures on the Air. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Clayman, S. and Whalen, J. (1988/9) 'When the Medium Becomes the Message: The Case of the Rather-Bush Encounter', Research on Language and Social Interaction 22: 241 - 272.
8. Coulter, J. (1986) 'Affect and Social Context: Emotion Definition as a Social Task', in R. Harré (ed.) The Social Construction of Emotions, pp. 120 - 134. New York: Blackwell.
9. Davies, B. and Harré, R. (1999) 'Positioning and Personhood', in R. Harré and L. van Langenhove (eds) Positioning Theory, pp. 32 - 52. Oxford: Blackwell.
10. Edwards, D. (1999) 'Emotion Discourse', Culture & Psychology 5: 271 - 291.
11. Eidelson, R.J. and Eidelson, J.I. (2003) 'Dangerous Ideas: Five Beliefs that Propel Groups toward Conflict', American Psychologist 58: 182 - 192.
12. Ellis, D.G. (1999a) Crafting Society: Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
13. Ellis, D.G. (1999b) 'Research on Social Interaction and the Micro-Macro Issue', Research on Language and Social Interaction 32: 31 - 40.
14. Ellis, D.G. and Maoz, I. (2002) 'Cross-cultural Argument Interactions between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians', Journal of Applied Communication Research 30: 181 - 194.
15. Fiske, S.T. and Taylor, S. (1991) Social Cognition. New York: McGraw-Hill.
16. Gans, H. (2003) Democracy and the News. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
17. Giddens, A. (1984) The Constitution of Society. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
18. Harrè, R. (ed.) (1986) The Social Construction of Emotions. New York: Blackwell.
19. Harrè, R. and Slocum, N. (2003) 'Disputes as Complex Social Events: On the Uses of Positioning Theory', in R. Harrè and F. Moghaddam (eds) The Self and Others: Positioning Individuals and Groups in Personal, Political, and Cultural Contexts, pp. 123 - 136. Westport, CT: Praeger.
20. Heritage, J. (1985) 'Analyzing News Interviews: Aspects of the Production of Talk for an Overhearing Audience', in T.A. van Dijk (ed) Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Vol. 3, pp. 95 - 117. New York: Academic Press.
21. Jefferson, G. (1990) 'List Construction as a Task and Interactional Resource', in G. Psathas (ed.) Interaction Competence, pp. 63 - 92. Washington, DC: University Press of America.
22. Johnstone, B. (1986) 'Arguments with Khomeini: Rhetorical Situation and Persuasive Style in Cross-cultural Perspective', Text 6: 171 - 187.
23. Katriel, T. (1986) Talking Straight: Dugri Speech in Israeli Sabra Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Labov, W. and Waletsky, J. (1967) 'Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience', in J. Helm (ed.) Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts, pp. 12 - 44. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
25. LaCapra, D. (2004) 'Disciplinarity, Cross-disciplinarity, and the Problem of Violence', Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 24 June.
26. Langenhove, L. van and Harré, R. (1999) 'Introducing Positioning Theory', in R. Harré and L. van Langenhove (eds) Positioning Theory, pp. 14 - 31. Oxford: Blackwell.
27. Leudar, I. and Nekvapil, J. (2004) 'Media Dialogical Networks and Political Argumentation', Journal of Language and Politics 3: 247 - 266.
28. Maoz, I. and Ellis, D. G. (2001) 'Going to Ground: Argument between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians', Research on Language and Social Interaction 34: 399 - 419.
29. Middle East Policy Council (2005) http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/ resources/mrates.asp
30. O'Conner, P.E. (1995) 'Discourse of Violence', Discourse & Society 6: 309 - 318.
31. Parrott, W.G. (2003) 'Positioning and the Emotions', in R. Harrè and F. Moghaddam (eds) The Self and Others: Positioning Individuals and Groups in Personal, Political, and Cultural Contexts, pp. 29 - 43. Westport, CT: Praeger.
32. Quandt, W.B. (2001) Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967 (rev. edn). Berkeley: University of California Press.
33. Roth, A.L. (1998) 'Who Makes the News? Descriptions of Television News Interviewees' Public Personae', Media, Culture & Society 20: 79 - 107.
34. Rouhana, N.N. (1997) Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
35. Rouhana, N.N. and Bar-Tal, D. (1998) 'Psychological Dynamics of Intractable Ethnonational Conflicts', American Psychologist 53: 761 - 770.
36. Solomon, R.C. and Stone, L.D. (2002) 'On "Positive" and "Negative" Emotions', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 32: 417 - 435.
37. Sontag, D. (2000) 'On a TV Show, Jerusalem is All Anger and Yelling (but Nobody Gets Hurt)', New York Times, 10 Oct., p. A10 - A10.
38. Stephan, W.G. and Stephan, C.W. (1996) Intergroup Relations. Dubuque, IA: Brown & Benchmark.
39. Tilly, C. (2003) The Politics of Collective Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
40. Van Dijk, T.A. (1993) 'Stories and Racism', in D.K. Mumby (ed.) Narrative and Social Control, pp. 121 - 142. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
41. Wasserstein, B. (2003) Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop? New Haven: Yale University Press.
42. Watson, R. (1978) 'Categorization, Authorization and Blame Negotiation in Conversation', Sociology 12: 105 - 113.
43. White, G.M. (1990) 'Moral Discourse and the Rhetoric of Emotions', in C.A. Lutz and L. Abu-Lughod (eds) Language and the Politics of Emotion, pp. 46 - 68. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
44. Wilkinson, S. and Kitzinger, C. (2003). 'Constructing Identities: A Feminist Conversation Analytic Approach to Positioning in Action', in R. Harrè and F. Moghaddam (eds) The Self and Others: Positioning Individuals and Groups in Personal, Political, and Cultural Contexts, pp. 157 - 180. Westport, CT: Praeger.
45. Zupnik, Y. (2000) 'Conversational Interruptions in Israeli-Palestinian "Dialogue" Events', Discourse Studies 2: 85 - 110.