On Silencing : What It Is and Why It Matters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGowan, Mary Kate.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

The phenomenon of silencing has taken on new salience in the wake of #metoo and current controversies around free speech. Mary Kate McGowan's On Silencing explains what silencing is, and why it is important. She examines the full range of silencing as it manifests in our social world, and how it is best understood as a failure of communication that happens when we are trying to communicate across difference. Written for a broad readership, On Silencing builds on and synthesizes existing literature on silencing, while providing concrete suggestions for how we might best combat its most harmful forms.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 An Overview

1.1 What Is Silencing?

1.2 Why Care?

1.3 The Audiences

1.4 The Contents

2 Understanding Language Use

2.1 Cases of Non-linguistic Communication

2.2 Communication Is Intentional

2.3 Communication Is Inferential

2.4 Communication Is Cooperative

2.5 Communication Is Context-Sensitive

2.6 Speech Acts: It's Not Just Content

2.7 Taking a Deeper Dive on the Nature of Illocution

3 What Is Silencing Anyway?

3.1 On Definitions

3.2 On Silencing

3.2.1 A Necessary Condition: Communicative Failure

3.2.2 Other Potential Necessary Conditions

3.3 The Three Broad Categories of Silencing

3.4 Revisiting Sincerity and Communication

3.5 Conclusion

4 You Got That Wrong: On Varieties of Miscommunication

4.1 Example 1: Messing Up Meaning

4.1.1 The Case of Prickly Politics: Yard Sign

4.1.2 Analyzing What Goes Wrong: Speaker Meaning

4.1.3 Is This Silencing?

4.1.4 Why Should We Care?

4.1.5 Additional Lessons

4.2 Case 2: Messing Up the Speech Action

4.2.1 The Case: Graduate Seminar

4.2.2 Analyzing the Case

4.2.3 Is It Silencing?

4.2.4 Why Should We Care?

4.2.5 Additional Lessons

4.3 Messing Up Sincerity

4.3.1 The Case: Fake Girl

4.3.2 Analyzing the Case

4.3.3 Is It Silencing?

4.3.4 Why Should We Care?

4.3.5 Additional Lessons

4.4 Additional Recognition Failures

4.4.1 Speaker Authority

4.4.2 Reason for Speech Act

4.4.3 True Self

4.5 On Social Scripts and Seriousness

4.6 Conclusion

5 Ineffectual Words: On Impact Prevention

5.1 Case One of Not Being Believed

5.2 Case Two of Not Being Believed

5.3 On Credibility and Knowledge Transmission.

5.4 More On Impact

5.5 Is Impact Prevention a Kind of Silencing: Should We Care?

5.6 Impact Silencing and Rape

5.7 Conclusion

6 Not Saying That On Preventing Communication

6.1 Decisions Against Speaking: Self-Silencing

6.1.1 Mere Disagreement

6.1.2 Harm Avoidance

6.1.3 On the Anticipation of Harm

6.2 Dotson's Testimonial Smothering

6.3 On Politeness and Harm-Avoidance Self-Silencing

6.4 Conclusion

7 Some Complex Contributors

7.1 Dialects

7.2 Conceptual Impoverishment

7.3 Misinterpreting Emotions

7.3.1 Anger and Attribution

7.4 Conclusion

8 Communicative Humility

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

References

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: McGowan, Mary Kate On Silencing

ISBN:

9780197837306

OCLC:

1570330300