Discourse and silencing : representation and the language of displacement / edited by Lynn Thiesmeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thiesmeyer, Lynn.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 5.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture, 1569-9463 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Silence.

Communication--Political aspects.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Discourse and Silencing

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Dedication page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Silencing in discourse

Discourse and silencing across academic disciplines

A theory of silencing

Discourse, knowledge, and practice

Private discourses, institutional discourses, national discourses: Silencing in the essays

Gender and private discourses

Law and institutional discourses

National politics and the discourses of exclusion

A `performative' coda to silencing: An artist's comment on social silence

Conclusions and future directions

Notes

References*

Gender and the discourses of privacy

Silencing talk of men's violence towards women

The study and its context

Men's maintenance of silence

The woman partner's silence

The silence of friends and family

Conclusions

References

Conversational styles and ellipsis in Japanese couples' conversations

Definition of ellipsis

Data collection and method of analysis

Conversational styles and ellipsis

Ellipsis as `incomplete'

Anticipation and interruption

Interpretation of metamessages

Conversational styles and social values in use of ellipsis

Conclusion

Appendix: Transcription conventions

Quiet in the court

Overt silencing strategies

The structure of testimonial narrative

Abstract and coda

Orientation

Complicating action

Evaluation

The distribution of narrative segments

Other narrative aspects used in silencing the witness

Question form usage as a silencing tool

Summary of results

Telling bits

Silencing and violence in prisons.

Research to speak through the silencing

United States and world incarceration

Interviewing and the discourse of crime

Agency and positioning

Narratives of prisoners and the possibility of a therapeutic discourse

Claiming agency: `I shot him'

Frame breaks

Shifting to `you': Seeking a self, seeking a community

Importance of `you'

Discourse as therapeutic resource

Appendix A: Transcription conventions

Appendix B: Rates of incarceration for selected nations per 100,000 population

Discourses of silence

1. Introduction

2. History of anti-Semitism

2.1. General perspectives

2.2. A new anti-Semitism in Austria?

2.3. The Waldheim Affair

3. Critical Discourse Analysis and discourse-historical methodology

3.1. Critical Discourse Analysis

3.2. New methods of analysing political discourse: Discourse-historical methodology

3.3. Data and linguistic methodology

4. Anti-Semitic stereotypes (prejudice content)

5. How are Jews labelled and categorized?

5.1. A hierarchy of silence, coded anti-Semitism and explicitness

5.2. Selective illustration of some categories of analysis

6. The World Jewish Congress as political synecdoche: Anti-Semitism as coded discourse

7. Conclusions

Note

Silencing by law

Assumptions and objectives in approaching legal and political discourse

Situation - freedom of (controlled) speech

What is freedom?

The State-benefactor

`Protection of freedom act'

Solution - what's not allowed is prohibited

Political vs. social

Guaranteeing the freedom (of interpretation)

Political texts

Vagueness

The act of silencing

Conclusion: The language of distrust

Appendix.

News discourse of Aboriginal resistance in Canada

Theories of mainstream media and minorities

Context of the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff

Analysis of two news stories

Context of the news story

1. Canadian Press

Relevance structures

Linguistic structures

Thematic structures

2. Vancouver Sun

Summary

Contextual comparisons of the two news stories

Media resistance

Concluding remarks

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Coda Performance discourse and meta-commentaries on silencing

Political silencing

Silence and silencing in Anderson's work

Silence and silencing in interpersonal politics

Silence and silencing in political propaganda

Silence and silencing as censorship

Silence as a metaphor for loss of identity

Notes on contributors

Name index

Subject index

The series DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE (DAPSAC).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161087

9781282161085

1282161083

9789027296320

9027296324

OCLC:

70770667