The power of silence social and pragmatic perspectives - Jaworski, Adam 1957- (SAGE, 1993)
Includes bibliographical references and index
This text provides a theoretical account of a variety of different communicative aspects of silence and explores new ways of studying socially-motivated language. A research overview shows the influence of related work in the fields of media studies, politics, gender studies, aesthetics and literature. The author argues that in theoretically pragmatic terms, silence can be accounted for by the same principles as those of speech