Listening to silences can be just as instructive as listening to voices, maybe more so.(Losey
1997: 191) This book is concerned with the meanings and roles of silence in intercultural …

Why are second language learners in Japan's universities so silent? This book investigates
the perplexing but intriguing phenomenon of classroom silence and draws on ideas from …

Although previous research has established that employee silence can weaken
organizational performance and development, less is known about potential detrimental …

This article has three objectives. Firstly, we seek to demonstrate the relevance of voice and
silence–that is, whether employees contribute or withhold information, ideas, views and/or …

Firstly, a sociopragmatic model of the interpretation of the silent answer is set up, with focus
on the suspect in custody who is being asked questions by the police or by a lawyer in court …

Context is key to understanding the roots and meanings of silence. As Saville-Troike (1985)
explains,'silence (like all nonverbal communication) is more context-embedded than …

Mainstream public relations overvalues noise, sound and voice in public communication.
But how can we explain that while practitioners use silence on a daily basis, academics …

The present study takes as its point of departure Kaul de Marlangeon's (2008a) typology of
verbal impoliteness in the Spanish-speaking cultures, and, using a corpus of English …

Objectives This paper considers the state of the science regarding language matters in
medical education, with particular attention to two informal language practices: silence and …

The right to silence is both a fundamental and a controversial element of the legal process.
Suspects and defendants are reminded repeatedly of this entitlement, from the moment of …