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.
ISBN9780190256623.
Dor, Daniel; Knight, Chris; Lewis, Jerome, eds. (2014). The Social Origins of Language. Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780199665334.
Dor, Daniel (2005). The Suppression of Guilt: The Israeli Media and the Reoccupation of the West Bank. Pluto Press.
ISBN9780745322957.
Dor, Daniel (2005). Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outburst of the Second Palestinian Uprising. Indiana University Press.
ISBN9780253343338.
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.
doi:
10.1017/CBO9780511817755.010.
ISBN9780521516457.
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.
doi:
10.1086/500704.
ISSN0093-1896.
S2CID159669301.
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.
doi:
10.1215/08992363-16-1-97.
ISSN1527-8018.
S2CID144471877.
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.
doi:
10.1017/S0269889700003574.
ISSN0269-8897.
S2CID55482841.
^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.
doi:
10.1017/CBO9780511817755.010.
ISBN9780521516457.
^Dor, Daniel (2005). Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outburst of the Second Palestinian Uprising. Indiana University Press.
ISBN9780253343338.
^Dor, Daniel; Knight, Chris; Lewis, Jerome, eds. (2014). The Social Origins of Language. Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780199665334.
^Dor, Daniel (2015). The Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social Communication Technology. Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780190256623.
^"Daniel Dor Bio". This View of Life. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 2021-01-26.