Background
Kurzon, Dennis was born on December 29, 1946 in London. Son of Heinz and Lisa (Hurtig) Kurzon. arrived in Israel, 1974.
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Discourse of Silence (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
(The book deals initially with the interpretation of the s...)
The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency pairs to the interpretation of silence. A model is presented which attempts to explain the observer’s cognitive competence, and its limits, in being able to interpret the silent answer. A basic distinction is also made between intentional silence (the refusal to answer) and non-intentional silence (the psychological inability to answer). The interpretation of silence is extended from a theoretical viewpoint to an analysis of various discourse types. Firstly, silence in the legal world: the accused’s and the witness’s right of silence, the right of legal authorities to silence the broadcasting of direct speech. The author then analyzes the silencing of characters in a literary text (Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice), in a biblical text (Moses and his speech impediment in Exodus), in opera (Moses’ silence in Schoenberg’s opera Moses und Aron) and in the cinema. Here, after the initial discussion of Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence, focus is shifted to the generation gap and the representation of silence by song in Mike Nichols’ The Graduate.
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It is Hereby Performed...: Explorations in legal speech acts (Pragmatics & Beyond)
(This book deals with speech acts, especially performative...)
This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as ‘operative’ in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated legislation; wills, the marriage ceremony and statutes as reversible performatives; and the distinction between the deictic function of this and the anaphoric function of that in legal documents. The final chapter is concerned with another text type, case reports, and addresses the question whether the judge makes or merely declares the law. This is discussed from the point of view of certain syntactic structures, in particular modal verbs.
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Dennis Kurzon
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Bachelor, Sheffield (England) University, 1970. Master of Arts, Manchester (England) University, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1984.
Career
Teacher Hebrew University, Israel, 1974-1988, senior teacher, since 1988. Head of department David Yellin Teachers College, Israel, 1985-1994. Senior lecturer Haifa (Israel) University, since 1994.
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It is Hereby Performed...: Explorations in legal speech acts (Pragmatics & Beyond)
(This book deals with speech acts, especially performative...)
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Discourse of Silence (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
(The book deals initially with the interpretation of the s...)
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It is Hereby Performed...: Explorations in legal speech acts (Pragmatics & Beyond)
Membership
Member International Pragmatics Association, International Association for Semiotics of Law (member editorial board since 1994).
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Married Rachel Azoulay, August 25, 1971. Children: Shulamit, Ittai, Efrat, Anatomical.
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Political Party
Black Panther Party
Education
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1970
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1972
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1984