Perspectives on Silence

Bys: Saville-Troike, Muriel and Tannen, Deborah

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893912557
• ISBN13: 9780893912550
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"