This ethnography looks at the indexical function of several brief utterances, routinely employed by a Palestinian speechmaker, in the Sheikh Jarrah protest in East Jerusalem. Following Silverstein's contributions to the indexically based theory of (meta)pragmatics, “creative” and nonreferential utterances are examined at the utterance event level, in relation to the speech event level, and more generally to verbal rituals. The political speeches I study have been delivered weekly, in Hebrew, by a Sheikh Jarrah resident and activist, for over a decade. The ethnographic analysis depicts how the utterances create a physical and symbolic (rhetorical) space for the performance of the speeches, routinize and ritualize their recurrence, and secure their endurance in a hostile environment. This is accomplished by spatially disassembling and reassembling the protesters, modifying the participation structure, and establishing a host–guest relationship. The speaker is repositioned as a resident, activist, and political rhetor-in-the-becoming, and the protestors are repositioned as his audience.

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“好吧，伙计们，谢谢你们今天来”：Sheikh Jarrah 政治演讲中的索引性、话语事件和言语仪式

这本民族志着眼于巴勒斯坦演讲者在东耶路撒冷谢赫·贾拉抗议活动中经常使用的几句简短话语的索引功能。继西尔弗斯坦对基于索引的（元）语用学理论的贡献之后，“创造性”和非指涉性话语在话语事件层面、与言语事件层面、更普遍地与言语仪式相关的层面上被检验。十多年来，我研究的政治演讲每周都会由谢赫·贾拉 (Sheikh Jarrah) 居民和活动家用希伯来语发表。民族志分析描述了话语如何为演讲的表现创造一个物理和象征（修辞）空间，如何将其重复例行化和仪式化，并确保其在敌对环境中的耐力。这是通过对抗议者进行空间拆解和重组、修改参与结构、建立主客关系来实现的。演讲者被重新定位为居民、活动家和未来的政治演说家，而抗议者则被重新定位为他的听众。