By studying letters written to the dead published in the popular Israeli press between 1997 and 2014, this paper examines the practices that constitute communicative acts toward a deceased person using interpersonal and mass media, in order to embody the recipiency of the dead. Using an analytical framework that draws on media ecology, communication theory, and discourse analysis, the paper demonstrates how the epistolary and mass media rhetoric operate to reconstruct the performance of the dead as an addressee. By exploring this understudied phenomenon and revisiting core notions of communication in light of written technologies, distance, and death, the paper argues that this communicative constellation, as a whole, is a performative act that offers a “communicative resurrection” to the dead.

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沟通的复活：以色列报纸上给死者的信

通过研究 1997 年至 2014 年间在以色列大众媒体上发表的写给死者的信件，本文研究了构成对死者使用人际媒体和大众媒体的交流行为的实践，以体现死者的接受能力。使用借鉴媒体生态学、传播理论和话语分析的分析框架，本文展示了书信和大众媒体的修辞如何运作来重建死者作为收件人的表现。通过探索这种未被充分研究的现象并根据书面技术、距离和死亡重新审视交流的核心概念，本文认为，这个交流星座，作为一个整体，是一种为死者提供“交流复活”的表演行为。