Silence As Language - Verbal Silence As a Means of Expression

This book provides a full linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language, exploring perspectives from semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, phonetics, syntax, and grammar, and taking into account a range of genres and contexts. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of different disciplines, languages and cultures.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Different Sorts of Silence; 3. Verbal Silence: Forms; 4. Verbal Silence: Functions; 5. S S S

About the author

Michal Ephratt is Professor of linguistics at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research interests include language and life: neologisms, iconicity, pragmatics, proper-names, and linguistic models in the psychoanalytic theory and practice. Her major research focus is on the study of silence as means of expression.

Summary

This book provides a full linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language, exploring perspectives from semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, phonetics, syntax, and grammar, and taking into account a range of genres and contexts. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of different disciplines, languages and cultures.

Foreword

With examples from a variety of contexts, this book provides a linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language.

Product details

• Authors: Michal Ephratt, Michal (University of Haifa Ephratt, Ephratt Michal, Ephratt Michal Ephratt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781108471671
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47167-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc