ד"ר מיכל חמו

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Personal details

Permanent Home Address: 13a Gilboa St. Mevaseret Zion, Israel 9075813

Home Telephone Number: 077-4812556

Cellular phone: 052-3524780

Email Address: [email protected], [email protected]

2. Higher Education
3. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies

1. Post-Doctoral Studies

3. Academic Ranks and Tenures in Institutes of Higher Education

4. Offices in Academic Administration

5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the Institution
6. Committee Membership

1. Organization and Participation in Academic forums

1. Service as an Occasional Reviewer, Referee or Consultant (since 2010)

6. Participation in Scholarly Conferences
7. Active Participation
8. International Refereed Conferences

2. International Seminars and workshops(non-refereed)

3. Israeli National Conferences (In Hebrew)

1. Organization of Conferences or Sessions

7. Invited Lectures and Colloquium Talks (Selected List)

8. Research Grants
9. Grants Awarded

1. Submission of Research Proposals – Pending

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1. Submission of Research Proposals – Not Funded

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9. Scholarships, Awards and Prizes (since 2005)

10. Teaching
11. Courses Taught in Recent Years (Since 2017)

1. Supervision of Graduate Students

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11. Miscellaneous
12. Professional Experience

PUBLICATIONS

* Unless explicitly specified otherwise, authors are listed in the order of their relative contribution, and the first author should be considered the primary author.

1. PhD Dissertation

Hamo, M. (2005). Televised images of conversation in Israel, 1991-2002. PhD dissertation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [In Hebrew, 380 pages, Supervisor: Prof. Shoshana Blum-Kulka. Publications D4 and D9 below are based on dissertation chapters.]

1. Scientific Books
   1. Authored Books (published)

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1. Authored Books (accepted for publication)

1. Edited Books and Special Journal Issues (published)
2. Blum-Kulka, S., & Hamo, M. (Eds.) (2010). Children talk: Communicative patterns in peer talk. Tel-Aviv: Matah, the Center for Educational Technology. [In Hebrew, 429 pages]
3. Hamo, M., Liebes, T., & Blondheim, M. (Eds.) (2012). Communication as discourse: Studies in language and media. Jerusalem: Magnes and Smart institute for communication. [In Hebrew, 387 pages]
4. Edited Books and Special Journal Issues (accepted for publication)

1. Other Scientific Publications

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1. Articles in Refereed Journals

1. Hacohen, G., & Hamo, M. (2002). From observation to transcription: Theory, practice and interpretation in the analysis of children’s naturally occurring discourse. Script, 3-4, 55-74. [In Hebrew. Both authors contributed equally to this work.]
2. Hamo, M., Blum-Kulka. S., & Hacohen, G. (2004). From observation to transcription and back: Theory, practice and interpretation in the analysis of children’s naturally occurring discourse. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37, 71-92. [Extended revision of publication D1]
3. Hamo, M. (2006). Conflictual discourse, discourse in conflict: Adversariality in the discourse of an Israeli talk-show. Kesher, 34, 151-159. [In Hebrew]
4. Hamo, M. (2006). Caught between freedom and control: "Ordinary" people's discursive positioning on an Israeli prime-time talk show. Discourse & Society, 17(4), 427-446.
5. Hamo, M. (2009). Style, form and function in conversational formats on television news: The case of "Ulpan Shishi". Hebrew Linguistics, 62-63, 323-346. [In Hebrew] [reprinted in: S. Blum-Kulka, O. Livio & O. Soffer (Eds.), Media discourse (pp. 219-242). Ra'anana: The Open University.]
6. Hamo, M. (2009). Textual mechanisms for the rich representation of Israeli identity on the reality show "Sof Ha-Derch 2". Media Frames: Israeli Journal of Communication, 3, 27-53. [In Hebrew. An extended and revised version appeared as publication E8.]
7. Hamo, M., Kampf, Z., & Shifman, L. (2010). Surviving the “mock interview”: Challenges to political communicative competence in contemporary televised discourse. Media, Culture & Society, 32(2), 247-266. [An extended and more developed version of publication E7.]
8. Blum-Kulka, S., Hamo, M., & Habib, T. (2010). Explanations in naturally occurring peer talk: Conversational dynamics, themes, and contribution to the development of discursive skills. First Language, 30(3-4), 440-460. [A shorter simplified version appeared in Hebrew as publication E4.]
9. Hamo, M. (2010). "The Nation's Living Room": Negotiating solidarity on an Israeli talk show in the 1990s. Journal of Israeli History, 29(2), 175-190.
10. Taub, G., & Hamo, M. (2011). Dialectic textual negotiation: Redemption and sovereignty in manifestos of the Israeli religious settlers' movement. Journal of Language and Politics, 10(3), 416-435.
11. Kampf, Z., & Hamo, M. (2015). Children talking Television: The salience and functions of media content in child peer interactions. Discourse & Communication, 9, 465-485.
12. Hamo, M. (2016). Positioning in meta-communicative discourse on Israeli television news. Israeli Studies in Language and Society, 9, 98-115. [In Hebrew]
13. Hamo, M., Kampf, Z., & Weiss-Yaniv, N. (2019). Populism as a keyword and as a meta-discursive resource for positioning in mediated political discourse. Discourse, Media & Context, 29, 100283. [Awarded Editor's choice, 2019]
14. Noy, C., & Hamo, M. (2019). Stance-taking and participation framework in museum commenting platforms: On subjects, objects, authors and principals. Language in Society, 48, 285-308.
15. Hamo, M., Kampf, Z. (2023). “But then again, too few to mention”: Negotiating regret in Israeli and American news interviews. Contrastive Pragmatics, 4, 410-436.

1. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books

1. Weissbrod, R., & Hamo, M. (2003). Translation in the post-modern era. In: R. Ben-Sachar & G. Toury (Eds.), Hebrew – A living language 3 (pp. 119-134). Tel-Aviv: Porter Institute and Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuhad. [In Hebrew. Refereed volume]
2. Hamo, M., & Blum-Kulka, S. (2007). Apprenticeship in conversation and culture: Emerging sociability in preschool peer talk. In: J. Valsiner & A. Rosa (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of sociocultural psychology (pp. 423-443). New-York: Cambridge University Press. [An extended revised version appeared in Hebrew as publication E5.]
3. Blum-Kulka, S., & Hamo, M. (2010). Introduction: Communicative competence, Literate discourse and peer talk. In: S. Blum-Kulka & M. Hamo (Eds.), Children talk: Communicative patterns in peer talk (pp. 5-41). Tel-Aviv: Matah, the Center for Educational Technology [In Hebrew]
4. Hamo, M., & Huck-Taglicht, D. (2010). Peer talk explanations: Content and functions. In: S. Blum-Kulka & M. Hamo (Eds.), Children talk: Communicative patterns in peer talk (pp. 121-144). Tel-Aviv: Matah, the Center for Educational Technology [In Hebrew. A shorter simplified version of publication D8]
5. Hamo, M., & Blum-Kulka, S. (2010). The rise of sociable conversation among children. In: S. Blum-Kulka & M. Hamo (Eds.), Children talk: Communicative patterns in peer talk (pp. 261-292). Tel-Aviv: Matah, the Center for Educational Technology [In Hebrew. An extended version of publication E2.]
6. Blum-Kulka, S., & Hamo, M. (2011). Discourse pragmatics. In: T. van-Dijk (Ed.), Discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction (2^nd edition) (pp. 143-164). London: Sage. [Appeared in Hebrew translation as: Blum-Kulka, S., & Hamo, M. (2015). Discourse pragmatics. In: S. Blum-Kulka, O. Livio & O. Soffer (Eds.), Media discourse (pp. 272-304). Ra'anana: The Open University.]
7. Hamo, M., Kampf, Z., & Shifman, L. (2012). Making it through "Pini the great": Challenges to the communicative competence of politicians in the 'media-fictive' interview era. In M. Hamo, T. Liebes, & M. Blondheim (Eds.), Communication as Discourse: Studies in language and media (pp. 351-383). Jerusalem: Magnes and Smart institute for communication. [Refereed volume. In Hebrew. An extended more developed version appeared in English as publication D7.]
8. Hamo, M. (2013). The (inter)play of nationality, religiosity and gender: Textual mechanisms for the rich representation of Israeli identity on a reality race gamedoc. In: N. Lorenzo-Dus & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.), Real talk: Reality television and discourse analysis in action (pp. 66-87). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [Refereed volume. An extended and revised version of publication D6]
9. Hamo, M. (2015). Broadcast talk and interaction analysis. In: S. Blum-Kulka, O. Livio & O. Soffer (Eds.), Media discourse (pp. 191-218). Ra'anana: The Open University. [In Hebrew]
10. Hamo, M., Kampf, Z., & Blum-Kulka, S. (2015). Discourse analysis: research traditions and core principles. In: S. Blum-Kulka, O. Livio & O. Soffer (Eds.), Media discourse (pp. 5-25). Ra'anana: The Open University. [In Hebrew]
11. Hamo, M. (2015). "I have nothing to do but agree": Affiliative meta-discursive follow-ups as a resource for the reciprocal positioning of journalists, experts and politicians-as-experts in television news. In: E. Weizman & A. Fetzer (Eds.), Follow-ups in political discourse: Explorations across contexts and discourse domains (pp. 57-80). Amsterdam: John Benjamin .[Refereed volume. An earlier version appeared as publication F1.]
12. Hamo, M., & Kampf, Z. (2025). Rituals of morality: Questions of regret and sorrow in news interviews. In: M. Haugh & R. Márquez Reiter (Eds.), Morality in discourse (pp.189-207). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    1. Articles in Conference Proceedings
       1. Hamo, M. (2012). “I have nothing to do but agree”: The reciprocal positioning of journalists and experts in broadcast television news discourse. In: Fetzer, A., Weizman, E., & Reber, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the ESF strategic workshop on follow-ups across discourse domains: A crosscultural exploration of their forms and functions (pp. 107-120). Electronic publication, Würzburg University. http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor.php?source_opus=7165 [a final version appeared as publication E11.]
    2. Entries in Encyclopedias

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1. Other Scientific Publications

1. Hamo, M. (2008). Book review of Hutchby, I. (2005). 'Media talk: Conversation analysis and the study of broadcasting'. Language in Society, 37(2), 290-293.
2. Hamo, M. (2011). Book review of Elda Weizman, 'Positioning in media dialogue: Negotiating roles in the news interview'. Pragmatics & Cognition, 19(3), 591-595.
3. Hamo, M., Blondheim, M., & Liebes, T. (2012). Introduction: Between language and discourse and communication. In M. Hamo, T. Liebes, & M. Blondheim (Eds.), Communication as Discourse: Studies in language and media (pp. 1-11). Jerusalem: Magnes and Smart istitute for communication. [In Hebrew]
   1. Other Publications
4. Hamo, M. (2013). The language of television news: Between tradition and change. Common Sense, 9.
5. Hamo, M. (2015). Television news between tradition and change. Panim http://www.panim-mag.org.il/ [In Hebrew]
   1. Other Works Connected with my Scholarly Field

Summary of Activities and Future Plans

My academic field is discourse analysis – the study of language use in context. Drawing on a range of analytic and theoretical approaches to language and discourse – pragmatics, micro-interactionism, conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication – I employ rigorous detailed analysis of linguistic and discursive phenomena as a way of exploring the social functions and meanings of real-life texts and interactions, and their complex interrelations with their cultural and institutional contexts.

The core strand of my work, since the beginning of my career to this day, focuses on the discourse analysis of television talk – that is, on examining the inner logic, communicative ethos and generic characteristics of broadcast interactions. I strive to fruitfully combine the discourse analytic micro-level sensitivity to the minute details of talk with a macro-level orientation to the public and social roles and ramifications of popular television texts, as discussed in media and television studies.

Over the years, I've applied this approach to the study of the most salient and dominant genres on Israeli commercial television in the periods studied: talk shows in the 1990's and early 2000's, reality television in the 2000's, and lastly television news, whose centrality remains constant throughout the years. While focusing on these three genres in my independent work, in my collaborative works I've extended to the study of additional genres, including various types of mediated political discourse.

Lately, my interest in media discourse has evolved in two directions. The first is a focus on meta-discourse as a specific fertile site for exploring the normative frameworks and beliefs of social actors. Several of my most recent publications examine various forms of meta-discourse, and I plan to further develop and extend this line of work in the near future. The second direction emerges from my teaching experience in recent years, which has turned my attention to mediated talk as realized not on television but rather in the digital sphere. In the future, I hope to examine the relevance and adaptation of my analytic approach to the study of computer-mediated interactions in general, and to the cross-platform relationships between traditional and social media in particular.

In parallel to my specific interest in media and television discourse, I also have a more general commitment to developing, consolidating and disseminating discourse analysis as a productive methodology for qualitative research in the social sciences, as evident in my research, teaching and academic service. Over the years I've taken part in collaborative studies in various research fields and on various research objects, such as children's discursive skills and their naturally occurring peer interactions, the historical evolution of political manifestos, or the participation frameworks of museumgoers comments. Similarly, my teaching exhibits a growing focus on methodology in general and on a methodological outlook on discourse analysis in particular. Finally, in recent years, by working with The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research of People and Societies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and by offering several workshops to researchers and graduate students from a range of disciplines and institutions, I've dedicated much of my academic service to promoting the accessibility and utility of discourse analysis to social scientists. I hope to continue pursuing this goal in the future.