Daniel Dor

Daniel Dor is an Israeli

Dor received his PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1996.^[1][2] He started teaching in the Department of Communication in Tel Aviv University in 1998.^[1] Since 2000, he has published a series of articles with Eva Jablonka on the evolution of language, describing a complex co-evolutionary relationship cultural evolution of language as a technology and the cognitive and biological evolution of humans.^[3][4] In 2004, he published Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press misreported the Outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising, which was chosen as book of the year in communication by Choice Magazine.^[5][1] In 2014, he co-edited “The Social Origins of Language” with Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis.^[6] In 2015, he published The Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social Communication Technology, which presented a new framework for the description and analysis of language and its evolution.^[7]

Activism

Between 2004 and 2007, Dor served as Chairman and Academic Supervisor of Keshev, the Center for the Protection of Democracy in Israel.^[1][8][9] In 2011, he founded together with Lia Nirgad The Social Guard, an NGO that maintains a civic presence in the Knesset, monitors the MKs work, and informs the public about every discussion bearing on issues of social justice in Israel.^[1][9]

Selected publications

Books

• Dor, Daniel (2015). The Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social Communication Technology. Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 9780190256623
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• Dor, Daniel; Knight, Chris; Lewis, Jerome, eds. (2014). The Social Origins of Language. Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 9780199665334
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• Dor, Daniel (2005). The Suppression of Guilt: The Israeli Media and the Reoccupation of the West Bank. Pluto Press.
  ISBN 9780745322957
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• Dor, Daniel (2005). Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outburst of the Second Palestinian Uprising. Indiana University Press.
  ISBN 9780253343338
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• Dor, Daniel (2017). "The role of the lie in the evolution of human language". Language Sciences. 63: 44–59.
  ISSN 0388-0001
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• Dor, Daniel (2017). "From experience to imagination: Language and its evolution as a social communication technology". Journal of Neurolinguistics. 43: 107–119.
  S2CID 53178413
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• Dor, Daniel; Jablonka, Eva (2010). "Plasticity and canalization in the evolution of linguistic communication: an evolutionary developmental approach". The Evolution of Human Language. pp. 135–147.
  ISBN 9780521516457
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• Dor, Daniel (2010). "The Israeli Media". In Rubenberg, Cheryl (ed.). The Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Lynne Rienner Publications.
• Dor, Daniel (2006). "Is There Anything We Might Call Dissent in Israel? (And, If There Is, Why Isn't There?)". Critical Inquiry. 32 (2): 278–287.
  S2CID 159669301
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• Dor, Daniel (2005). "Toward a Semantic Account of that-Deletion in English". Linguistics. 43 (2).
  S2CID 144718268
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• Dor, Daniel (2004). "From Englishization to Imposed Multilingualism: Globalization, the Internet, and the Political Economy of the Linguistic Code". Public Culture. 16 (1): 97–118.
  S2CID 144471877
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• Dor, Daniel (2003). "On newspaper headlines as relevance optimizers". Journal of Pragmatics. 35 (5): 695–721.
  S2CID 8394655
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• Dor, Daniel; Jablonka, Eva (2001). "From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the Evolution of Language". Selection. 1 (1–3): 33–56.
  ISSN 1585-1931
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• Dor, Daniel (2008). "From Symbolic Forms to Lexical Semantics: Where Modern Linguistics and Cassirer's Philosophy Start to Converge". Science in Context. 12 (4): 493–511.
  S2CID 55482841
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