TY - BOOK ID - 14464088 TI - The power of silence: social and pragmatic perspectives PY - 1993 VL - v. 1 SN - 0803949669 0803949677 1322419280 1483325466 1452252572 PB - Newbury Park, Calif. Sage DB - UniCat KW - NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION KW - SILENCE KW - Silence. KW - Communication. KW - Pragmatics. KW - Silence KW - Communication KW - Pragmatique KW - Pragmatics KW - #SBIB:309H511 KW - #SBIB:309H53 KW - 316.77 KW - 800.95 KW - 316.77 Communicatiesociologie KW - Communicatiesociologie KW - 800.95 Non-verbale communicatie KW - Non-verbale communicatie KW - Noise KW - Pragmalinguistics KW - General semantics KW - Language and languages KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - Verbale communicatie: algemene pragmatiek, stilistiek en teksttheorie, discoursanalyse KW - Niet-verbale communicatie KW - Philosophy KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Mass communications UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14464088 AB - 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. ER -