Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction: The communicative functions of silence in science -- Signifying silence -- A typology of silence -- External, suppressive silences -- Intern…
Over the last half century scholars from a range of disciplines have attempted to theorise silence. Naively we tend to think of silence negatively, as a lack, an emptiness. Yet silence studies shows that silence is more than mere absence. All speech incorporates silence, not onl…
Pt. 1. Choosing silence -- pt. 2. Cultures of silence -- pt. 3. Silences in the public sphere.