Author : Dennis Kurzon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250629
Discourse of Silence by Dennis Kurzon Pdf
This work discusses the discourse of silence and looks at how people relate to silence in specific conte×ts. It e×amines the application of semiotic tools to e×plore several facets of silence in everyday conversation, and reviews various studies of silence that have been published. The book interprets silence in terms of modality in order to distinguish between intentional and unintentional silence. It also presents an analysis of the silence of characters in films, biblical and cinematic te×t in which the terms of reference generally e×pand - from the silent answer, through the silencing of characters by authors, to silence as a feature of the generation gap.