Prof. Silvia Adler
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I am interested in French linguistics: syntax, semantics and pragmatics; Ellipsis, thrifty language; prepositions; quantification; intensity; approximation and precision; general unspecified nouns; Meaning-making in comics and other multimodal texts.
As Full Professor in the Department of French Culture at Bar Ilan University I specialize in both French linguistics and Multimodal Discourse Analysis. I was initially interested in ellipsis, thrifty language, and simple and complex prepositions, to which I devoted a book (Ellipse et Régimes des Prépositions Françaises (further reading).
Prof. Galia Yanoshevsky
Academic staff
I am interested in Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, French Literature, visual rhetoric and argumentation, photobooks and guidebooks, tourism studies, contemporary French literature.
I specialize in both French literature and Discourse Analysis. I was initially interested in the New Novel in France (le Nouveau Roman), to which I devoted a book (Les discours du Nouveau Roman: Essais, Entretiens, Débats [The discourses of the New Novel: Essays, Interviews, Debates], 2006), as well as numerous articles on the theoretical writings of Nathalie Sarraute (Revue des sciences humaines, 273 (1), 2004) and of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Études littéraires, Automne 2005) (further reading).