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Communicative Resurrection: Letters to the Dead in the Israeli Newspaper
Ist Teil von
Journal of communication, 2017-12, Vol.67 (6), p.827-850
Ort / Verlag
Hoboken, USA: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Social Sciences
Beschreibungen/Notizen
By studying letters written to the dead published in the popular Israeli press between 1997 and 2014, this paper examines the practices that constitute communicative acts toward a deceased person using interpersonal and mass media, in order to embody the recipiency of the dead. Using an analytical framework that draws on media ecology, communication theory, and discourse analysis, the paper demonstrates how the epistolary and mass media rhetoric operate to reconstruct the performance of the dead as an addressee. By exploring this understudied phenomenon and revisiting core notions of communication in light of written technologies, distance, and death, the paper argues that this communicative constellation, as a whole, is a performative act that offers a “communicative resurrection” to the dead.