Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, 'The normalization of war in Israeli discourse 1967-2008', Law

My first motivation in this lecture is to describe life in reality of repetitive wars from the perspective of Israeli citizen. I would like to explain the tense between 'normal life' and living under endless shade of a concrete or potential war.

1) What is the role of the Israeli war discourse in the situation of repetitive wars?

2) Can we point on linguistic and discursive mechanisms that are typical to the Israeli war discourse and maybe to other war discourses?

My lecture will concentrate on one special mechanism, what I call a 'war normalizing discourse'.

War normalizing discourse is a set of discursive strategies aim at blurring the anomalous character of war by transforming it into an event perceived as something "natural" or "normal" part of ordinary life. Under the general framework of War-Normalizing Discourse, four analytical tools were defined: Euphemization, Naturalization, Justification and Symbolic Annihilation.

The lecture demonstrates various appearances (verbal and visual) of the War Normalizing Discourse, including the representation of wounded soldiers in the Israeli Television and names of military practices. It also focuses on the normalization of the Occupation.

Dalia Gavriely-Nuri - is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is CDS "Special features" Editor. She specializes in the cultural and discursive aspects of peace and war, national security and the Arab-Israel conflict. She has published more than 20 articles on the Israeli war discourse.

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Home About Undergraduate Postgraduate Staff Research Current Students News & Events Contact Us Information for: Alumni Business Media	Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, 'The normalization of war in Israeli discourse 1967-2008' Date: 14 March 2013 Time: 17:00-18:00 Venue: FASS MR 1 My first motivation in this lecture is to describe life in reality of repetitive wars from the perspective of Israeli citizen. I would like to explain the tense between 'normal life' and living under endless shade of a concrete or potential war. More specific, this lecture raises two questions: 1) What is the role of the Israeli war discourse in the situation of repetitive wars? 2) Can we point on linguistic and discursive mechanisms that are typical to the Israeli war discourse and maybe to other war discourses? My lecture will concentrate on one special mechanism, what I call a *'war normalizing discourse'. War normalizing discourse is a set of discursive strategies aim at blurring the anomalous character of war by transforming it into an event perceived as something "natural" or "normal" part of ordinary life. Under the general framework of War-Normalizing Discourse, four analytical tools were defined: Euphemization, Naturalization, Justification and Symbolic Annihilation. The lecture demonstrates various appearances (verbal and visual) of the War Normalizing Discourse, including the representation of wounded soldiers in the Israeli Television and names of military practices. It also focuses on the normalization of the Occupation.* Dalia Gavriely-Nuri - is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is CDS "Special features" Editor. She specializes in the cultural and discursive aspects of peace and war, national security and the Arab-Israel conflict. She has published more than 20 articles on the Israeli war discourse. Contact: Who can attend: Anyone Further information Associated staff: Mercedes Camino (History), Agata Fijalkowski, Patrick Hagopian (History), Corinna Peniston-Bird (History), Thomas Rohkrämer (History), John Strachan (History), David Sugarman, John Welshman (History), Ruth Wodak (Linguistics and English Language) Organising departments and research centres: Centre for Law and Society, Dynamics of Memories, History, Law, Linguistics and English Language «Back	Events Forthcoming Events Archive All Faculty Events News News News Archive All Faculty News
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