Michal Marmorstein

Dr. Michal Marmorstein is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, affiliated with the School of Education, Communication & Society within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy. Her research focuses on discourse analysis and interactional linguistics, particularly examining Arabic and Hebrew across conversational, literary, and digital contexts. She investigates how verbal, prosodic, and embodied resources construct discourse structures, achieve social actions, and reflect ideologies. Her work spans sociolinguistic diversification of communicative resources across genres and modalities.

Her research projects include ISF-funded studies on Egyptian Arabic discourse markers, DFG-funded network collaborations on discourse particles, and seed-funding projects on spoken Arabic prosody and cross-linguistic news response analysis. She contributes to corpus construction, including the Hebrew WhatsApp Dialogues (HebWA) and Hebrew University Corpus of Spoken Hebrew (HCSH).

Her publications explore topics such as classical Arabic tense systems, online commenting practices in Israel, and discourse markers in multilingual contexts. She collaborates internationally, notably with King’s College London and Leverhulme-funded institutions.