This book provides a full linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language, exploring perspectives from semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, phonetics, syntax, and grammar, and taking into account a range of genres and contexts. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of different disciplines, languages and cultures.
This book provides a full linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language, exploring perspectives from semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, phonetics, syntax, and grammar, and taking into account a range of genres and contexts. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of different disciplines, languages and cultures.
Michal Ephratt is Professor of linguistics at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research interests include language and life: neologisms, iconicity, pragmatics, proper-names, and linguistic models in the psychoanalytic theory and practice. Her major research focus is on the study of silence as means of expression.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. The Different Sorts of Silence 3. Verbal Silence: Forms 4. Verbal Silence: Functions 5. S S S