Silence as Language - Michal Ephratt

Silence as Language

Verbal Silence as a Means of Expression

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Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-47167-1 (ISBN)
118,45 inkl. MwSt
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.
Verbal silence touches on every possible aspect of daily life. This book provides a full linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language, exploring perspectives from semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, phonetics, syntax, grammar and poetics, and taking into account a range of spoken and written contexts. The author argues that silence is just as communicative in language as speech, as it results from the deliberate choice of the speaker, and serves functions such as informing, conveying emotion, signalling turn switching, and activating the addresser. Verbal silence is used, alongside speech, to serve linguistic functions in all areas of life, as well as being employed in a wide variety of written texts. The forms and functions of silence are explained, detailed and illustrated with examples taken from both written texts and real-life interactions. Engaging and comprehensive, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in this fascinating linguistic phenomenon.

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.

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

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-108-47167-6 / 1108471676
ISBN-13 978-1-108-47167-1 / 9781108471671
Zustand Neuware
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