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Perspectives on silence / edited by Deborah Tannen and Muriel Saville-Troike.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., c1985.Description: xviii, 251 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0893912557
  • 0893913103 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.56 19
LOC classification:
  • P95.53 .P47 1985
Contents:
[The nature and study of silence] -- The place of silence in an integrated theory of communication / Muriel Saville-Troike -- [Psychological and ethnographic views of pausing] -- The machine stops : silence in the metaphor of malfunction / Ron Scollon -- Psychological correlates of silence and sound in conversational interaction / Cynthia L. Crown and Stanley Feldstein -- The two faces of silence : the effect of witness hesitancy on lawyers' impressions / Anne Graffam Walker -- Some reasons for hesitating / Wallace L. Chafe -- [Some meanings and uses of silence] -- Silence : anything but / Deborah Tannen -- Joyful noise and reverent silence : the significance of noise in Pentecostal worship / Daniel N. Maltz -- Silence and sulking : emotional displays in the classroom / Perry Gilmore -- [Silence in cross-cultural perspective] -- Silence and noise as emotion management styles : an Italian case / George R. Saunders -- Eloquent silence among the Igvo of Nigeria / Gregory Nwoye -- The silent Finn / Jaakko Lehtonen and Kari Sajavaara -- [Silence and Nonverbal Communication] -- Interaction structured through talk and interaction structured through 'silence' / Susan U. Philips -- Some uses of gesture / Adam Kendon -- Appendix : A sampling of sources on silence / Emma Munoz-Duston & Judith D. Kaplan.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks P95.53.P47 1985 1 Available 33710000014139

Includes indexes.

"A sampling of sources on silence / Emma Muñoz-Duston, Judith Kaplan": p. 235-242.

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[The nature and study of silence] -- The place of silence in an integrated theory of communication / Muriel Saville-Troike -- [Psychological and ethnographic views of pausing] -- The machine stops : silence in the metaphor of malfunction / Ron Scollon -- Psychological correlates of silence and sound in conversational interaction / Cynthia L. Crown and Stanley Feldstein -- The two faces of silence : the effect of witness hesitancy on lawyers' impressions / Anne Graffam Walker -- Some reasons for hesitating / Wallace L. Chafe -- [Some meanings and uses of silence] -- Silence : anything but / Deborah Tannen -- Joyful noise and reverent silence : the significance of noise in Pentecostal worship / Daniel N. Maltz -- Silence and sulking : emotional displays in the classroom / Perry Gilmore -- [Silence in cross-cultural perspective] -- Silence and noise as emotion management styles : an Italian case / George R. Saunders -- Eloquent silence among the Igvo of Nigeria / Gregory Nwoye -- The silent Finn / Jaakko Lehtonen and Kari Sajavaara -- [Silence and Nonverbal Communication] -- Interaction structured through talk and interaction structured through 'silence' / Susan U. Philips -- Some uses of gesture / Adam Kendon -- Appendix : A sampling of sources on silence / Emma Munoz-Duston & Judith D. Kaplan.