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Perspectives on Silence - Saville-Troike, Muriel, and Tannen, Deborah, PhD
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This book focuses attention on a relatively neglected component of communication-silence-in order to present current research from a number of disciplines and also to stimulate further research on the subject. Silence is often viewed as an out-of-awareness phenomenon against which talk is perceived. By reversing polarities and treating silence as a figure to be examined against talk, we are given a heightened awareness of the universal aspects of human behavior while emphasizing its complex nature as a cultural phenomenon ...

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Perspectives on Silence 1985, Praeger, New York

ISBN-13: 9780893913106

Trade paperback

Perspectives on Silence 1985, Praeger, New York

ISBN-13: 9780893912550

Hardcover