Perspectives on silence / edited by Deborah Tannen and Muriel Saville-Troike.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tannen, Deborah.

Saville-Troike, Muriel, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silence.

Communication.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

xviii, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., [1985]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

"A sampling of sources on silence / Emma Muñoz-Duston, Judith Kaplan": pages 235-242.

ISBN:

0893912557

0893913103

OCLC:

11090548