Tamar Katriel
Tamar Katriel received her PhD from the department of Speech Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1983. She has held a faculty position at the University of Haifa, Israel, ever since. Her areas of teaching and research include the Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Studies. She has been visiting scholar in a number of American Universities, including The University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, The University of Texas, Austin, Rutgers University, and Harvard University. She is author of several books and a range of articles that appeared in Communication, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, and Education journals. Her published books include: Performing the past: A study of Israeli settlement museums. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. Communal webs: Communication and culture in contemporary Israel. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991. Talking straight: 'Dugri' speech in Israeli Sabra culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Her forthcoming book, entitled Dialogic moments: From soul talks to talk radio in Israeli culture was published by Wayne State University Press in 2004.
Key Words:
Ethnography of communication, cultural studies, rhetoric, argumentation,
sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, symbolic analysis, language
ideology, critical linguistics
