TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gaulan, Yael
A1  - Marmorstein, Michal
A1  - Kampf, Zohar
T1  - “Say, are you a little ashamed?”
T2  - Discourse, context & media
N2  - In light of the growing emotionalization of public discourse, this article deals with the action of shame allocation in Israeli accountability interviews. A qualitative analysis of tokens of the Hebrew verb lehitbayesh ‘to be ashamed’ in political interviews was conducted using Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis methods. The findings show that in this public context the verb lehitbayesh is mostly not used to convey an emotional state, nor can its meaning be explained by the classic theoretical conceptualization of shame. Instead, lehitbayesh is mobilized to allocate shame to another actor, and portrays the allocator as morally superior and as someone who sacrifices for what is right. Lehitbayesh is part of the negotiations between journalists and politicians over the question of who is accountable for a transgressive act, what the desired response is, and who the relevant  audience for the moral lesson is.
KW  - accountability interviews
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - discursive psychology
KW  - emotion discourse
KW  - moral discourse
KW  - shame
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62728
SN  - 2211-6958
VL  - 56
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -