This proposed counseling research intervention presents tools mental health clinicians can use to improve psychotherapeutic treatment by understanding shame, guilt, and silence when addressing sexual trauma in female incest survivors. Research often focuses on survivor populatio…
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This is a study about the meanings of silence in multi-ethnic classrooms of older adults, as well as a study of signs and signals for breaking silence which are used by participants in classroom contexts when they wish to speak. A search of the literature revealed minimal inform…
The Hebrew Bible, early Christian asceticism, Quakerism, and the Kantian sublime present contrasting and sometimes paradoxical perceptions of silence. The Hebrew Bible offers silence in a variety of forms, introducing notions and associations that reappear in numerous texts. Asp…
This thesis is concerned with a number of phenomena in ancient oratory and rhetoric connected to <i>limits of speech</i>: being silent, pausing, not treating a topic. All of this can happen either as a matter of incapacity or failure-or deliberately. Research in this particular …
Hesychia, Greek for quiet and stillness, is a method of controlling the body and focusing the mind's attention with silence and prayer in petition to Jesus Christ. It is an ancient Orthodox Christian ascetic practice that can provide an opportunity for peace and a transcendent s…
How do non-vocal practices function within sequences? This thesis addresses silence and gesture in the context of social interaction involving human participants through the framework of conversation analysis (CA) to answer this question. Although it is certainly possible, and i…
Some of the most fiercely argued issues that we see within society today are arguments of definition. For example, there are disputes amongst service members about defining who a veteran is. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) defines a veteran as a "person who served in the…
This project seeks to address how silence, noise, and spectacles are represented in relation to foreclosing natural and economic systems and what they might signify as either fuel for, or a drain on, imaginative reverie in three main texts: Upton Sinclair’s Oil! (1927), Karen Ta…
While at first glance the differences between Southern Gothic literature and Russian Realism seem vast, Southern Gothic authors have often evoked the works and somber themes of Dostoevsky in both fictional and nonfiction writings. The dialogue between Southern Gothic writers and…
This dissertation argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle’s foundational roles in det…
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area soundscape in northern Minnesota has a long and contested history but is most often characterized today as a pristine and distinctly silent wilderness. This thesis traces the construction and perpetuation of the Boundary Waters as a silent space by…
This dissertation analyzes different forms of silence in various historical narratives about the Holocaust and Argentina. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Holocaust and Latin American literary critics, this study focuses on the dynamic transformation of language and how t…