Perspectives on Silence

This book focuses attention on a relatively neglected component of communication-silence-in order to present current research from a number of disciplines and also to stimulate further research on the subject. Silence is often viewed as an out-of-awareness phenomenon against which talk is perceived. By reversing polarities and treating silence as a figure to be examined against talk, we are given a heightened awareness of the universal aspects of human behavior while emphasizing its complex nature as a cultural phenomenon.

Product details

• Authors: Saville-Troike Muriel, Tannen Deborah
• Assisted by: Muriel Saville-Troike (Editor), Deborah Tannen (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1985
• EAN: 9780893912550
• ISBN: 978-0-89391-255-0
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Business: Business Communications