Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
β Scribed by Adam Jaworski (editor)
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 416
- Series
- Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; 10
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Part One: Introductory
Introduction: An overview
Aesthetic, communicative and political silences in Laurie Anderson's performance art
Part Two: Linguistics and pragmatics
Silence and markedness theory
Silence and politeness
Part Three: Discourse analysis
Silence and the acquisition of status in verbal interaction
Discourses of the unsayable: Death implicative talk in geriatric medical consultations
Part Four: Narrative analysis
Silence and revelation in the English traditional ballad
Silent and silenced voices: Interactional construction of audience in social work talk
Part Five: Ethnography of communication
Giving street directions: The silent role of women
Silence in ritual communication
Part Six: Cross-cultural communication
The silent Finn revisited
Cross-cultural back channels in English refusals: A source of trouble
Part Seven: Beyond language
Music and silence
Silence across modalities
Silence in paintings: Let me count the ways
Silence and communication in art
Part Eight: Teaching silence
Teaching "Discovering silence"
Part Nine: Epilogue
White and white: Metacommunicative and metaphorical silences
Subject index
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