Michal Blau

(Non)-Verbal Common Ground Negotiations: A Microanalytic Study of Initial Psychotherapy Sessions in English as Lingua Franca

Michal Blau, Jasmin Spiegel

Abstract In this study, the cultural components of language as expressed in a psychotherapeutic dialogue meet the phenomenon of nonverbal communication. The meeting takes place in moments of common ground creation in three videotaped transcultural consecutive psychotherapeutic sessions. The analysis of nonverbal …

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Shaping the Dialogue in the Talmudic Story of an Anonymous Woman’s Arguments for Bearing Children versus the Legal Halakhic Law and the Context of the Story

Michal Blau, Uri Zur

This article explores a story taken from the Talmud Bavli (Yevamot 65b) which describes a dialogue between the arguments raised by an anonymous woman and a rabbinical judge, R. Ammi, with regard to her demand for a divorce and for receipt of …

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A Chiastic Structure in a Five-Story Cluster in Bavli Bava Batra 151a–b

Michal Blau, Uri Zur, Ortsion Bartana

This article examines the connection between the stylistic structure and the content of a five-story cluster in the Babylonian Talmud on Bava Batra 151a–b. We point out that in the first story, there are two judges (dayanim), R. Bibi Bar Abaye and …