Discourse and Silencing -

Discourse and Silencing

Representation and the language of displacement

Lynn Thiesmeyer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
315 Seiten
2003
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-2695-2 (ISBN)
128,05 inkl. MwSt
A comprehensive study of representation and the language of displacement, this work covers such topics as: gender and the discourses of privacy; law and institutional discourses; national politics and the discourses of exclusion; and coda performance discourse.
Silencing is not only a physically coercive act. It is also an act of language involving forms of selection, representation and compliance. Discourse and Silencing weaves together theories and examples of discourse from different disciplines in order to put forward a theory of silencing in language: that discursive systems filter, represent and displace types of knowledge into other forms of expression.
Each chapter of the book analyses examples of silencing through discourse in various social and political fields. The examples cover courtroom trials, government censorship, domestic violence, marital conversations, penal institutions, news media, and political rhetoric. They cover societies ranging from Eastern and Central Europe, Canada and the U.S. to New Zealand and Japan. The contributors clarify the difference between chosen silences and the silencing that, as a practice, seeks to limit, alter or de-legitimise another’s discourse. The book also examines the continuous resistances and shifts in discourse and silencing within the social and political frameworks in which interlocutors negotiate their relations to each other.

1. Acknowledgements; 2. 1. Introduction: Silencing in discourse (by Thiesmeyer, Lynn); 3. I. Gender and the discourses of privacy; 4. Introduction (by Thiesmeyer, Lynn); 5. 2. Silencing talk of men's violence towards women (by Towns, Alison); 6. 3. Conversational styles and ellipsis in Japanese couples' conversations (by Okazaki Yohena, Shoko); 7. II. Law and institutional discourses; 8. Introduction (by Thiesmeyer, Lynn); 9. 4. Quiet in the court: Attorneys' silencing strategies during courtroom cross-examination (by Fridland, Valerie); 10. 5. Telling bits: Silencing and the narratives behind prison walls (by O'Connor, Patricia E.); 11. III. National politics and the discourses of exclusion; 12. Introduction (by Thiesmeyer, Lynn); 13. 6. Discourses of silence: Anti-Semitic discourse in post-war Austria (by Wodak, Ruth); 14. 7. Silencing by law: The 1981 Polish 'performances and publications control act' (by Galasinski, Dariusz); 15. 8. News discourse of Aboriginal resistance in Canada (by Lambertus, Sandra); 16. IV. Coda: Performance discourse and meta-commentaries on silencing; 17. Introduction (by Thiesmeyer, Lynn); 18. 9. Political silencing: A view from Laurie Anderson's performance art (by Jaworski, Adam); 19. Notes on contributors; 20. Name index; 21. Subject index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.8.2003
Reihe/Serie Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture ; 5
Verlagsort Amsterdam
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 245 mm
Gewicht 580 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 90-272-2695-4 / 9027226954
ISBN-13 978-90-272-2695-2 / 9789027226952
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