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Shoshana Blum-Kulka

Shoshana Blum-Kulka is Carl and Matilda Newhouse Professor in the Department of Communication and School of Education at the Hebrew University. Her research interests are in the fields of cross-cultural pragmatics, pragmatic development, interlanguage pragmatics, language education, family discourse and media discourse. Her most recent books are Dinner Talk: Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization (Lawrence Erlbaum,1997) and Talking with Adults: The Contribution of Multiparty Talk to Language Development (2002, Lawrence Erlbaum, co-edited with Catherine Snow). She is currently working on a book on Child Discourse, which grew out of an ongoing longitudinal ethnographic and discourse analytical study of pragmatic development.