Gonen Dori-Hacohen

I use qualitative textual analysis to study discourse (Israeli, American, online commenting in Israel Talkback), economics (Dave Ramsey's), culture (Israeli, American, concepts like entertainment, politics), and interaction (in all forms and formats). I study these constructs by analyzing how people do them in their everyday life, on traditional media (radio, TV), online (online comments, Facebook participation), or in ordinary face-to-face interactions. I follow Wittgenstein (the latter one), Durkheim, and Weber (although politically speaking I'm closer to Marx) to do conversation analysis, interactional discourse, discourse pragmatics, and semiotics to explain the world.

(PhD 2009, University of Haifa, Israel; MA in Communication and Journalism, the Hebrew University; MA in Sociology, UCLA; BA from the Open University of Israel). I'm a discourse analyst, studying interactions in the media and in mundane situations, focusing on the intersection of interaction, culture, politics, and the media. Currently, working on projects on Entertainment-Politican Interviews, Speech-Language-Therapy interactions, and civic participation.

I work hard and publish quite a lot of research, and will be happy to instruct graduate students how to follow through with this profession.

I am looking for graduate students who are interested in financial discourse, political discourse and civic participation. Additionally, I am looking for Israeli students who would like to study interactions in Hebrew.

My articles are available for downloading @ academia.edu
https://twitter.com/gonendh

Ph.D., Communication, University of Haifa, Israel
M.A., Sociology, UCLA 
M.A., Communication, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
B.A. cum laude, Humanities & social Sciences, Open University of Israel

CV: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mn8Pj7ZusF_fhTSrJkAQTk324R_CTlvy/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113100562323050994979&rtpof=true&sd=true

Undergraduate:
Studying social interaction
Talk in the Media

Graduate:
Communication Theory
Comunication in the public sphere
Ways to Analyze Discourse

For information on the Social Interaction and Culture graduate focus

BOOKS

Dori-Hacohen, G., Grimshaw, Eean, B. and Reijven, Menno H. (2024). Politicians at Night: Interaction and Discourse on the Entertainment-Political Interview. Lexington Books. Peer-reviewed series.

Refereed Journal Articles - Last six years

Nir, Bracha, & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2023). Should s/he stay or should s/he go: Alliances and rapport in child-caregiver-therapist SLT sessions. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 14(3), 430-455.

Reijven, Menno H., Durrani, Alina* & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2023). "“And all of that:” The Long List in Political Discourse." Contrastive Pragmatics, 4, 466-492. https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10075 (Graduate Student, Department of Communication, Umass).

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2022). “It is important to act responsibly, within the law, without Hitlahamut and violence:” Hitlahamut, violence, and social disintegration. Media Frames, 22，156-189. { Journal of Israeli Communication Association).

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2020). The “Long List” in Oral Interactions: Definition, examples, context, and some of its achievements. Pragmatics, 30(3), 303-325. https://benjamins.com/catalog/prag.19007.dor

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2020). From Participating to Derogatory: The “Arab” voice and its absence in two areas of the Israeli Public Sphere. Israel studies in language and society, 14(1-2) 257-839. [Hebrew]

Reijven, Menno H.* Cho, Sarah,* Ross, Mathew* & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2020). Conspiracy, Religion, and the Public Sphere: The Discourses of Far-Right Counterpublics in the U.S. and South Korea. International Journal of Communication, 14, 5331-5350. (*(former) Graduate Student, Department of Communication, UMass Amherst)

Reijven, Menno H.*, Grimshaw, Eean* & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2020). “That’s Not Funny!” Identity and the Organization of Interaction on U.S.A. Entertainment-Political Interviews. Discourse, Context, & Media, 35. (*Graduate Student, Department of Communication, UMass Amherst)

Montenegro, Roberto E. & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2020). Negotiating Morals in Sugar Talk: Presenting Blood Glucose Levels in Routine Diabetes Medical Visits. Social Science and Medicine, 253.

Nir, Bracha, Mayost-Abramovich, Irit,^* & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2019). Balancing institutional authority and children’s agency: The Hebrew verb lircot [to want] in Speech Language Therapy sessions. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 10(2), 153-178. (* MA student, Department of Communication Disorder and Science, University of Haifa)

Avalos, Xima,* and Dori-Hacohen, G. (2019). Criticism, Consensus, and Fandom: Demonstrated practices from a Sports Facebook fan page. Discourse, Context & Media, 29, 1-9.  (*former Graduate Student, Department of Communication, UMass Amherst)

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2019). “Hitlahamut”: a term for unreasonable populist public talk in Israel. Discourse and Society, 30 (2), 135-153. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926518816193

Maschler, Yael and Dori-Hacohen, G. (2018). Constructing a Genre: Hebrew ('ani) lo yode'a / lo yoda'at ‘(I) don’t know’ on Israeli Political Radio Phone-ins. Text & Talk, 38(5), 574-604.

Livnat, Z., Dori-Hacohen, G., (2018). Indexing membership via responses to irony: Communication competence in Israeli radio call-in shows, Language & Communication, 58, 62-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2017.08.004

For earlier publications, please email: @email:

they include many publications on radio phone-ins, talk-backs, irony, and more!

Refereed Book Chapters - some

Dori-Hacohen, G. & Nir, B. (accepted). Is dialogue a possibility in speech-language therapy?Perspectives from one Hebrew therapy session. In M. Bartesaghi, S. Forbes, & G. Peters (Eds.). The Medicalization of Dialogue (And its alternatives). John Benjamins.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2019). ""I can do math, but I''m not that smart. I''m not brilliant”: Ordinariness as a discursive resource in U.S.A radiophonic financial call-in interactions. In Fetzer, A. & Weizman, E. (eds.) Doing Ordinariness in Media Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 133-156.

Van Over, Brion, Dori-Hacohen, Gonen & Winchatz, Michaela R. (2018). Policing the Boundaries of the Sayable: The Public Negotiation of Profane, Prohibited and Proscribed speech. In Michelle Scollo & Trudy Milburn (Eds.) Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis: A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 195-217

Maschler, Y., & Dori-Hacohen, G (2016). Hebrew nu: Grammaticization of a Borrowed Particle. InAuer, P. & Maschler, Y. (eds.) NU and NÅ: A Family of Discourse Markers Across the Languages of Europe and Beyond. Berlin:  Walter de Gruyter. 162-212.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2014b). Establishing social groups in Hebrew: ‘we’ in political radio phone-in programs. In Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.) Constructing Collectivity: ‘We’ across Languages and Contexts (pp. 187-206). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2017-2018 Lady Davis Fellowship for Visiting Professors, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2012 Fellow Research Grant, UMass Amherst
2012 SBS FRG Matching grant
2012 UMass Mellon Mentoring fellowship micro-grant

Interviews on short online forms

Israeli political participation 2000-2018: From radio phone-ins to online tokbek

Speech-Language Therapy with children: analyzing asymmetrical interactions using Dialogic Resonance, Stance, and conversation analysis

Constructing (neo)Conservative Community: The Dave Ramsey's show and its interactions