Individual moral otherness as a means to underscore sectoral otherness

• Pnina Shukrun-Nagar ^[1]
  1. [1] Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

     Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

     Israel

     
• Localización: Journal of language and politics, ISSN 1569-2159, Vol. 18, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 161-183
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study examines the news broadcasts of the Israeli TV Channel 2. It focuses on coverage of instances in which Haredi ‘Jewish ultra-Orthodox’ individuals are accused of committing immoral acts such as child abuse, hit and run accident and rape. I argue that in all of these instances, the moral otherness of these individuals is linked to their Haredi identity, thus intensifying the negativesectoral otherness of the entire Haredi community.

    I discuss tagging, visual devices and especially discursive strategies used to link individual moral otherness to sectoral otherness at various levels of directness. Additionally, I analyze online comments written by viewers of the items discussed, which indicate the identification and interpretation of implications and implicatures conveyed by this rhetorical linkage.