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To Speak or Not to Speak. Notes on Silence as a Dialogic Speech Act
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Săftoiu, Răzvan |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Silence has been discussed as an important resource of interaction, a pragmatically relevant component of interaction (Jaworski 1997), which has a specific interactional background, being more context-embedded than speech (Tannen 1985, Sifianou 1997). I start from the premise that silence and speech are not contradictory categories, but they are integrated within a continuum. I also consider that silence is an integrative part of human communication and I will dwell upon the idea that eloquent silence (Sifianou 1997, Ephratt 2008) can be considered a dialogic speech act (Weigand 2010) since the speaker has specific intentions, goals, purposes and interests in using silence both as action, to make a claim, and reaction, to fulfil a claim. Using examples from transcriptions of naturally-occurring conversations, I discuss silence as an intentional and purposeful action by which an individual can convey meaningful messages. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.lingv.ro/images/RRL%201-2%202018%2010-RSaftoiu.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/indexing/details/A27739/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Notes |
