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Silence as a Communicative Discourse Act in Nigeria
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ugwu, En Igene, S. O. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Silence projects extra meanings that are culturally and socially significant. In discourse, it belongs to a larger category of non-verbal modes of communication whose sincerity conditions include a particular psychological state of mind of the sender. This paper seeks to examine silence as a complete language with its own systems of encoding and decoding of messages from a sender to a receiver in an immediate context of situation. It then looks at the functional analysis of the various types of silences as illocutionary acts and perlocutionary effects. A more accurate interpretation of silence therefore, involves an understanding of the sender's intention as well as the context in which silence is used. |
| Starting Page | 224 |
| Ending Page | 234 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/laligens/article/download/106535/96486 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
