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Alava, Henni. "The Lord’s Resistance Army and the arms that brought the Lord." Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 44, no. 1 (September 20, 2019): 9–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v44i1.75028.
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This article develops the notion of polyphonic silence as a means for thinking through the ethical and political ramifications of ethnographically encountering and writing about silenced violent pasts. To do so, it analyses and contrasts the silence surrounding two periods of extreme violence in northern Uganda: 1) the northern Ugandan war (1986–2006), which is contemporarily often shrouded by silence, and 2) the early decades of colonial and missionary expansion, which the Catholic church silences in its commemoration of the death of two Acholi catechists in 1918. Employing the notion of polyphony, the article describes how neither of these silences is a mere absence of narration. Instead, polyphonic silences consist of multiple, at times discordant and contradictory sounds, and cannot be consigned to single-cause explanations such as ‘trauma’ or ‘recovery’. Reflecting on my own experience of writing about and thereby amplifying such silences, I show how writing can serve either to shield or break silence. The choice between these modes of amplification calls for reflection on the temporal distance of silence, of the relations of power amid which silence is woven, and of the researchers’ ethical commitments and normative preconceptions.
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Tremblay, Gilles. "Silences, silence." Gilles Tremblay : analyses 6, no. 1 (February 5, 2010): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/902116ar.
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La responsable de ce numéro a rassemblé une collection de six textes d’analyse du compositeur québécois Gilles Tremblay. En annexe, on retrouve une bibliographie chronologique des textes et travaux consacrés à ce créateur.
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Carpenter, Lorelei, and Helena Austin. "Silenced, Silence, Silent." Qualitative Inquiry 13, no. 5 (July 2007): 660–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800407301179.
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Aphek, Edna, Nitsa Kann, and Jorge R. Sagastume. "Silencio / Silence." Sirena: poesia, arte y critica 2007, no. 1 (2007): 242–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sir.2007.0003.
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Blix, Bodil H., Vera Caine, D. Jean Clandinin, and Charlotte Berendonk. "Considering Silences in Narrative Inquiry: An Intergenerational Story of a Sami Family." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 50, no. 4 (April 3, 2021): 580–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08912416211003145.
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Through coming alongside a Sami family, we open spaces to contemplate multiple forms of silence. We argue that rather than the antithesis to narrative, silence is an integral part of narrative inquiry. As narrative inquirers we need to be wakeful to what is told and also untold, often simultaneously. We believe that narrative inquiry is not necessarily about breaking silences, but it is also about honoring silences, as well as the practice of silence. By calling forward one author’s intergenerational experiences, we explore different aspects of silence such as silence as text, silence as context for living and telling, and silences following silencing. We explore how we live with, and within, silences, and how our told and untold stories are shaped by silences and, in turn, also shape silences.
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Vaudrin-Charette, Julie. "Reading Silenced Narratives: A Curricular Journey into Innu Poetry and Reconciliation." in education 21, no. 2 (December 2, 2015): 150–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.37119/ojs2015.v21i2.223.
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Using a life writing research methodology in this article, I seek to understand the complexities implicated in reading silenced narratives as a way towards reconciling internations relationships. To do so, I weave in the poetical territories of Josephine Bacon, Innu poet from Pessiamit, Quebec. I analyse how a poetic text has created spaces for reinterpreting silence[s], that journey into and beyond my whispered narratives as an emerging, settler scholar and curriculum theorist. As I tune into several layers of silences, I examine the pedagogical implications lying within public and intimate territories of silenced narratives and the narrative(s) of silence(s) in our various practices as educators.Keywords: Postcolonialism; Indigenous education; educator's role; pedagogyFigure 1. A visual abstract is offered here as an alternative way to enter the space of silenced narratives of symbolic literacies (see Battiste, 1986).
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Sánchez Román, María Elisena. "El silencio en la representación del poder: el caso del Caballero oscuro / The Silence in the Representation of the Power: The Dark Knight Case." Revista Internacional de Cultura Visual 3, no. 1 (April 4, 2016): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.37467/gka-revvisual.v3.493.
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ABSTRACTParticularly, the objective here is to explain how the silence works as semiotic concentrate (Noe Jitrik, 2007) able to show the representation of the power. ¿In which forms are the silence present? ¿what are these silences talking about?, ¿how the silence is broken and why? Are some of the questions that try to answer. And as the silence has many social uses we focus on the power accurate and maintained around the superhero, as representative of a national identityRESUMENParticularmente, aquí el objetivo es explicar el funcionamiento del silencio como concentrado semiótico (Noe Jitrik, 2007) capaz de develar la representación del poder. ¿Cuáles son las formas en las que se presenta el silencio?, ¿de qué nos hablan estos silencios?, ¿cómo se rompe el silencio y por qué? Son algunas de las preguntas a las que se busca dar respuesta. Y ya que el silencio tiene distintos usos sociales nos centramos en el poder que se adquiere y se ejerce alrededor de un superhéroe que, además, representa la identidad de una nación. El corpus de análisis es la trilogía The Dark Knight, que Christopher Nolan hizo sobre Batman, compuesto por las películas: Batman begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), y The Dark Knight rises (2012).
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Ngah Noah, Marcel Urbain. "Quelques réflexions sur le silence et le droit : essai de systématisation." Les Cahiers de droit 56, no. 3-4 (December 17, 2015): 575–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1034463ar.
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Le silence côtoie indiscutablement le droit. Il s’agit d’un couple en interaction. Le silence saisit le droit à travers les silences du droit. Ces silences, justifiés par plusieurs raisons, sont protéiformes et source d’incertitude. Le droit essaie tant bien que mal de les combler quand il ne les génère pas lui-même. Par ailleurs, le droit appréhende le silence en tentant de le juridiciser. Entreprise perceptible à travers non seulement le droit au silence, mais aussi par l’imposition ou l’interdiction du silence selon les cas. Constatant la présence du silence, le droit l’interprète en lui octroyant ou non une portée juridique.
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Meadows, Phillip John. "Experiencing Silence." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50, no. 2 (October 28, 2019): 238–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/can.2019.19.
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AbstractThis paper identifies three claims that feature prominently in recent discussions concerning the experience of silence: (i) that experiences of silence are the most “negative” of perceptions, (ii) that we do not hear silences because those silences cause our experiences of silence, and (iii) that to hear silence is to hear a temporal region devoid of sound. The principal proponents of this approach are Phillips and Soteriou, and here I present a series of objections to common elements of their attempts to place these three claims within an account of experience of silence. The final section of the paper returns to the first of the three claims and argues that, in fact, there is no good reason to accept it as initially formulated. However, when properly formulated, the claim ceases to offer support for Phillips’s and Soteriou’s approach to experience of silence.
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Touati, Bernard, and Bernard Touati. "Mulholland Drive. Silencio ! Silence on tourne, silence on rêve, silence on meurt." Revue française de psychanalyse Vol. 87, no. 1 (February 3, 2023): 173–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rfp.871.0173.
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Niemistö, Charlotta, Jeff Hearn, Mira Karjalainen, and Annamari Tuori. "Interrogating silent privileges across the work–life boundaries and careers of high-intensity knowledge professionals." Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal 15, no. 4 (July 14, 2020): 503–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrom-06-2019-1775.
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PurposePrivilege is often silent, invisible and not made explicit, and silence is a key question for theorizing on organizations. This paper examines interrelations between privilege and silence for relatively privileged professionals in high-intensity knowledge businesses (KIBs).Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on 112 interviews in two rounds of interviews using the collaborative interactive action research method. The analysis focuses on processes of recruitment, careers and negotiation of boundaries between work and nonwork in these KIBs. The authors study how relative privilege within social inequalities connects with silences in multiple ways, and how the invisibility of privilege operates at different levels: individual identities and interpersonal actions of privilege (micro), as organizational level phenomena (meso) or as societally constructed (macro).FindingsAt each level, privilege is reproduced in part through silence. The authors also examine how processes connecting silence, privilege and social inequalities operate differently in relation to both disadvantage and the disadvantaged, and privilege and the privileged.Originality/valueThis study is relevant for organization studies, especially in the kinds of “multi-privileged” contexts where inequalities, disadvantages and subordination may remain hidden and silenced, and, thus, are continuously reproduced.
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Ephratt, Michal. "Iconic silence: A semiotic paradox or a semiotic paragon?" Semiotica 2018, no. 221 (March 26, 2018): 239–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0115.
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AbstractFor a sign to be a sign it must bond an object (quality), a signifier, and the idea to which it gives rise (CP 1.339). The paper focuses on the iconicity of silence as a hypoiconic signifier, exploring the semiotics of silence in light of the notions and studies of iconicity. Fascinating parallelisms hold between iconicity and silence. These raise many challenges to the study of each separately, let alone dealing with them jointly. Some icons and some silences are qualities in the real world, others are semiotic forms (signifiers) standing for or denoting objects. Simple, intuitive qualities of iconicity and of silence are naturally grasped and shared from antiquity to the present by cultures and peoples. The paper employs Peirce’s initial basic trichotomy of iconic classes as well as his later hierarchies for studying the iconic stance of silence as a hypoiconic signifier (Secondness). Analyzing and illustrating the possible complexities between forms (a silent signifier), contents, their relations and their interpretations, group hypoiconic silences into silence as an image, silence as a diagram, and silence as a metaphor.
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Bigo, Vinca. "On Silence, Creativity and Ethics in Organization Studies." Organization Studies 39, no. 1 (August 19, 2017): 121–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840617717553.
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Silence is at once a notoriously difficult and most elusive subject. Management and organization studies depict silence as exclusionary, oppressive, needing to be overcome, and as a strategy to resist oppression. The idea that silence might be cultivated for and not against, stressing positive and enabling (and yet non instrumental) aspects of silence, is meanwhile much less considered. Yet if silence excludes, it can exclude all sorts of things, including undesirable things. Silences forge an emptiness, and so a space for the possible emergence of something new, beyond existing beliefs, norms and practices. Certain silences facilitate creativity, including creativity of an ethical sort. The endeavour of this article is to in part interrogate and deconstruct the current status of silence in management and organization studies, and further to anchor the topic more firmly in organizational scholarship and practice, particularly in relation to ethics and creativity.
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Bugno-Narecka, Dominika. "Silence and Media Encounters in Noah Hawley’s Before the Fall." Roczniki Humanistyczne 69, no. 11 (December 8, 2021): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh216911-3.
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Silence is enfolded with voice—the two phenomena are complementary. The presence of silence inevitably points to the presence of sound, and by extension, to the presence of meaning. Still, encountered silence can be meaningful in itself. The article explores interactions between different media (TV news, painting and black box recordings) and the corresponding silences in Noah Hawley’s Before the Fall: the silence of the main protagonist and his avoidance of news reporters; the silence of catastrophic art voiced by the use of ekphrasis; and the silence recorded by the black boxes. The rhetoric of each medium in question and its interaction with the corresponding silence are investigated to show that silence “speaks volumes” in the novel.
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Marković, Jelena. "The Silence of Fear, Silencing by Fear and the Fear of Silence." Narodna umjetnost 57, no. 1 (June 19, 2020): 163–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.15176/vol57no108.
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Although the aim of this paper is primarily to provide a theoretical contribution to our understanding of silence, it is also based on an ethnographic study conducted in Lika, a region of Croatia marked by a history of conflict and violence. Silence, in addition to having diverse functions and effects, is also characterised by different durations (it can be measured in seconds as well as in decades). It can be, and often is, filled with other potentially communicable non-verbal aspects (emotions and affects, gestures, sounds, etc.). It can also be more or less dependent on – and even steered by – the opinions, experiences and viewpoints of other individuals and communities. In short, this paper deals with the silences found in the course of the research within the framework of numerous typologies of silence, focusing on contextually dependent and ambivalent effects of silence, its “emptiness”, duration and actors (both individuals and communities). This paper deals with silences and silencing at the macrolevel (which includes their affective and social functions), as well as their effect at the microlevel of interpersonal interaction, everyday life and fieldwork encounters. The effects of the network of silences on the public presentation of the findings resulting from studying silence will also be discussed.
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Scott, Charles E. "Interpreting Silence?" Research in Phenomenology 50, no. 1 (May 7, 2020): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341436.
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Abstract The guiding question in this essay is, how might we speak of silence—interpret silence—without objectifying it and losing a sense of it in the way we speak of it. That means that prioritizing the value of direct linguistic language, comprehension (i.e. constructing a conceptual grasp), interpreting what other hermeneuts say about silence, or attempting to make it visible is not a viable option. The myths of Hermes and Metis, however, might be integral to the lineages of speaking and knowing that are more suited to speaking of silence than the lineages that arise out of biblical exegesis and modern/contemporary philosophy and theology. In the process of shifting to the value of those myths, the bonding of truth and goodness with stability and moral decency is displaced by the value of uncertainty and indirection. Throughout, the essay accepts the distinction between silences and silence and prioritizes awareness of silence in the silence accompanying awareness.
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Silmi, Amirah. "Voice and Silence in Assia Djebar and Adania Shibli." Critical Times 6, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 58–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/26410478-10235943.
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Abstract This essay considers the works of two Arab writers, Assia Djebar and Adania Shibli, to examine how silences in their texts are signs of both oppression and of resistance and rebellion. It seeks to show how the silences as well as the cries and incomprehensible voices of the colonized defy colonial and hegemonic narratives by resisting incorporation into the order of the intelligible and recognizable. Both writers believe in the power of words, but their words, liberated from the function of signification, release silences as they release the voices of the colonized in their multiplicity. Djebar's texts present no binary opposition between silence and voice; in the continuous search for the voices of colonized women, voice and silence are inextricably intertwined. In Shibli's Minor Detail, as in many of Djebar's texts, the search for voices takes the form of a journey backward, but the voices of the colonized are not retrieved, and we are left with only their silence. Moreover, whatever audible voices there are in Shibli's text become markers of silence; it is thus silence that speaks in Shibli's text. By virtue of their very lack of discursive power, the silences and voices released in these writers' works retain the freedom that comes with transgression and remind us of the flight that writing can be.
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Thurner, Mark. "Silence, echo, theory." Focaal 2012, no. 63 (June 1, 2012): 123–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2012.630111.
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The echoes that Andrés Guerrero hears and shares with us here are strictly inequivalent: the one is an echo of an archival silence, the other of sensational newsflashes. The newsflash conjures more telling silences, and perhaps a film (Biutiful comes to mind); but the echo of such silences demands not film but theory. How so?
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Delmotte, Isabelle. "Environmental silence and its renditions in a movie soundtrack." Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) 1 (October 24, 2011): 58–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.1.10588.
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Audio technology and contemporary sonic environments have affected perceptual habits at both individual and communal levels. As the perception of sound fluctuates between modes of attention and inattention, the narrative expectations generated by sonic materials may follow patterns of individual physical response that would in turn modify some communal perceptions of environmental soundscapes, silences in particular. In current sound design practice and the mainstream movie industry, the use of absolute silence as an absence of sound seems almost irrelevant. Film silence has become the complex technical product of mixing sounds, a view that departs from silence as a broad sound element added to vocal enunciation, music and special sound effects. As a subtle component of a narrative, cinematic silence may be at the junction of representation and reproduction of the acoustic biomass that we create and communicate to others. This paper examines how the subjective enaction of audio-filmic silence could develop from evolving acoustic ecologies, corporeal integration and cultural convention. In such a context, film silence could be a reciprocal tool that may generate modes of expression used to assess our personal and communal notions of environmental silences.
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Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth. "Silences in Music are Musical Not Silent: An Exploratory Study of Context Effects on the Experience of Musical Pauses." Music Perception 24, no. 5 (June 1, 2007): 485–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2007.24.5.485.
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SILENCES IN MUSIC ARE DISTINGUISHED acoustically along only one dimension: the length of time they occupy. However, like pauses in speech, they are distinguished syntactically along many dimensions, depending on the context in which they occur. In two experiments, one using musical excerpts from commercially available recordings, and the other using simpler constructed excerpts, participants' reactions to silences were assessed. Participants pressed a button when they heard a period of silence begin and end, moved a slider to indicate perceived changes in musical tension across the course of each excerpt, and answered a series of questions about each silence, including questions about its duration, placement, salience, and metric qualities. Musical context, especially tonal context, affected the response to silence as measured by all three tasks. Specifically, silences following tonal closure were identified more quickly and perceived as less tense than silences following music lacking such closure.
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Yildiz, Suleyman Murat. "The effect of workplace mobbing on organizational silence: empirical results from higher education institutions." Sistemas & Gestão 16, no. 1 (May 4, 2021): 101–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.20985/1980-5160.2021.v16n1.1704.
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Mobbing and organizational silence are among the topics that have attracted attention in the field of organizational behavior. This study aimed to investigate the effect of mobbing behaviors on organizational silence in the workplace. Data were obtained from academicians working at public universities in Turkey. As a data collection tool, the Mobbing Scale for Academicians (MS-A) scale developed by Yildiz (2020) to measure mobbing, and the organizational silence scale developed by Van Dyne et al. (2003) to measure organizational silence were used. Correlation and hierarchal regression analyzes were applied to the obtained data. Relationships between the sub-dimensions of mobbing and sub-dimensions of organizational silence were analyzed separately. According to the results of the analysis, mobbing behaviors had a significant and positive effect on acquiescent silence and defensive silences of the academicians. However, there was no significant effect of mobbing on the prosocial silence of academicians. These results showed that mobbing behaviors were effective in the emergence of organizational silence.
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Altman, R. "The Silence of the Silents." Musical Quarterly 80, no. 4 (January 1, 1996): 648–718. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mq/80.4.648.
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Martyres, Gita. "On Silence: A Language for Emotional Experience." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 29, no. 1 (March 1995): 118–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679509075900.
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Silence is an important aspect of human interaction, but is often experienced with discomfort and quickly filled with words. While quantitative parameters of silence such as timing and duration are easily recognised, qualitative experiential aspects are much more difficult to identify and describe. Emotions are experiential and complex, having antecedents in personal history, but words used to describe emotions are generally inadequate and simplistic. Silence is a useful experiential medium in which to identify and work with emotions. It is necessary to recognise what is being communicated by silence in each silence. This paper explores types of silences encountered in clinical work, and techniques to deal with them, avoiding symbolised language and technical terms of individual schools of psychotherapy.
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Guénette, Dave. "Le silence des textes constitutionnels canadiens - expression d’une constitution encore inachevée." Les Cahiers de droit 56, no. 3-4 (December 17, 2015): 411–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1034457ar.
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À travers le prisme de la thématique du silence, l’auteur propose d’étudier la nature incomplète et l’état de désuétude de la Constitution canadienne. La conception du silence élaborée dans sa démonstration dépasse le simple mutisme, le vide ou l’omission pour s’étendre au « malaise » et à l’« hypocrisie » constitutionnelle. C’est à l’aide de cette conception, et en se basant sur la théorie des constitutional abeyances, que l’auteur veut démontrer que la Constitution canadienne regorge de silences substantiels, témoignant ainsi de son inachèvement. L’origine et les conséquences de ces silences qui transcendent l’ordre constitutionnel canadien sont également un objet d’analyse. Plus généralement, l’auteur critique aussi le rôle que joue la formule d’amendement dans le maintien du silence constitutionnel au Canada.
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Ahmadian, Sahar, Saeed Astrabeh, and Mohsen Ejrami. "ORGANIZATIONAL SILENCE, ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST, AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT." JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES SOCIAL SCIENCES AND BUSINESS (JHSSB) 3, no. 1 (September 6, 2023): 112–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.55047/jhssb.v3i1.817.
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Organizational silence limits the effectiveness of organizational decisions and change processes. This is a problem that is currently plaguing organizations, and it causes most organizations to suffer from very little employee comments and opinions that can reduce the effect of organizational trust on organizational commitment. Therefore, the present research investigates the mediating role of organizational silence and its dimensions including; Deviant silence, Disengaged silence, Diffident silence, Defensive silence, Relational silence, and Ineffectual silence in the effect of organizational trust on organizational commitment. The method of collecting information was a standard questionnaire. The statistical population of the research includes 75 experts of Automotive Company in Iran. The questionnaire was distributed among 75 people and finally 70 questionnaires were returned healthy and analyzable. For the statistical analysis in the inferential statistics section of the research, all the analyses were done using the structural equation technique and the partial least squares method with the help of SMART PLS software. The results of data processing showed that relational silence, diffident silence, and deviant silence play a mediating role in the effect of organizational trust on organizational commitment. Other research results did not confirm the mediating role of defensive silence, ineffectual silence, and disengaged silence in the effect of organizational trust on organizational commitment. The results of the research can be used for automotive company's managers to identify the types of silences that exist in the organization and increase the organizational trust and commitment of company employees
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Lichau, Karsten. "Soundproof Silences? Towards a Sound History of Silence." International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 7, no. 1 (November 2, 2019): 840–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/hcm.586.
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This article calls for a sound history of silence. Widely neglected within sound-historical research, exploring the manifold sounds of silence not only fills a lacuna in scholarship, but also poses critical challenges to current discussions in the flourishing field of sound history. This theoretical claim is based on empirical case studies from another still unwritten history: the political and cultural history of the minute’s silence, a political commemoration ceremony established in the aftermath of World War I. A practice theory approach makes it possible to understand how silence was produced in specific historical contexts through a complex set of cognitive, emotional, logistical, media, physiological, sensorial and kinesthetic practices that engage (or not) with the official call for silence and make it into success or failure. Conceiving of silence as a complex acoustical practice, the article aims to establish silence as a full-fledged topic of research at the centre of sound history and to inspire research on the historical and contemporary interplay between political structures and sensory or bodily practices.
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Ayaz, Sammar, Manzoor Ilahi, and Seema Safeer. "MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S THE WOMAN WARRIOR: SPEAKING FOR SILENCED." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 05, no. 02 (June 30, 2023): 100–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v5i02.1114.
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The present research paper discusses Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. Kingston being a Chinese American writer touches upon the predicaments of silenced women and her selected novel advocates for these silenced characters. The study investigates that where doe lie silence of chines-American immigrant and secondly silence of Chinese women in traditional Chinese society. Although there is the taboo “not tell” but Kingston manages to break the silence. She re-writes with the help of her experience and imaginative power and articulates the voiceless thoughts. The most important form of voice is speaking. In this respect Kingston herself realizes the importance of articulation from her own experience, besides “no name woman” she presents those characters who are capable to express their thoughts by articulation and among them brave orchid represents the strongest voice as her name itself suggests. This qualitative study implies feministic model of Madson and content analysis content technique and interprets data accordingly. Keywords: Silence, femininity, marginalization, Chinese, American
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Safeer, Seema, Manzoor Ilahi, and Sammar Ayaz. "MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S THE WOMAN WARRIOR: SPEAKING FOR SILENCED." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 05, no. 02 (June 30, 2023): 100–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v5i02.1172.
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The present research paper discusses Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. Kingston being a Chinese American writer touches upon the predicaments of silenced women and her selected novel advocates for these silenced characters. The study investigates that where doe lie silence of chines-American immigrant and secondly silence of Chinese women in traditional Chinese society. Although there is the taboo “not tell” but Kingston manages to break the silence. She re-writes with the help of her experience and imaginative power and articulates the voiceless thoughts. The most important form of voice is speaking. In this respect Kingston herself realizes the importance of articulation from her own experience, besides “no name woman” she presents those characters who are capable to express their thoughts by articulation and among them brave orchid represents the strongest voice as her name itself suggests. This qualitative study implies feministic model of Madson and content analysis content technique and interprets data accordingly. Keywords: Silence, femininity, marginalization, Chinese, American
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Capuzzo, Guy. "Elliott Carter and Musical Silence." Journal of Music Theory 64, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 37–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00222909-8033420.
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This article examines Elliott Carter’s most extensive forays into the theory and practice of musical silence: the 2005 composition Intermittences and the 1957 lecture “Sound and Silence in Time: A Contemporary Approach to the Elements of Music.” Taken together, the piece and the lecture present an opportunity to ask significant questions about the role of silence in Carter’s music. The evaluation of Carter’s lecture in this article situates his understanding of musical silence in the broader context of musical expectation and reveals the influence of Alfred North Whitehead. Analyses of passages from Intermittences clarify the interaction of notational and registral silence in the work. A comparison of four recordings of Intermittences explores how performers realize the work’s notational silences as acoustic ones.
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Gimenez, Géraldine. "La diversité des investissements psychiques et psychosociologiques du silence… en analyse de pratiques." Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie N° 36, no. 2 (September 14, 2023): 113–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/nrp.036.0113.
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Si le silence dans un groupe d’analyse des pratiques peut être entendu comme une modalité de défense de la part des participants, il est aussi une épreuve pour son conducteur : comment travailler avec les silences dans un dispositif reposant sur la parole ? Intervenante clinicienne dans une démarche d’orientation psychanalytique (Blanchard-Laville), l’auteure interroge les silences et le rapport au silence d’un groupe de professionnels de l’éducation spécialisée, en les replaçant dans la trame du discours à partir de prises de notes à chaud et d’élaborations sur son implication dans ce groupe. D’abord signe de défiance, ce silence s’est révélé être le langage possible pour signifier la transmission inconsciente entre deux générations d’éducateurs et devenir outil d’accordage sur ce qui pouvait être partagé dans l’espace de l’analyse.
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Veliu, Liridona. "The sounds of silence: Democracy and the referendum on (FYRO)/(North) Macedonia." New Perspectives 29, no. 2 (May 12, 2021): 165–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2336825x211010667.
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Prevailing studies on silence and democracy, in spite of silence’s inherently ambiguous nature, focus on subscribing meaning(s) to silence. Such attempts of turning silence into speech, point to an adversary relationship between silence and democratic theory. First, this article conducts an onto-epistemological critique of democratic theory’s treatment of silence (as meaning). Second, it suggests that there are self-reflective analytical benefits for scholars of democratic theory should they broaden up their gaze from silence as meaning toward silence-as-doing. This article argues that this can be done by shifting the epistemological focus from interpreting possible meanings behind the nonvoters’ silence into analyzing the context and/of interpretations of silence as ambiguous. Third, to illustrate this, the article uses the 2018 name referendum in North Macedonia which shows how the speech-centered approach of democratic theory is utilized to serve political goals rather than reaching the democratic ideal of “everyone having a vo-ice/te.”
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Kaura-aho, Katariina. "Politics of Silence: On Autonomous, Communicative and Aesthetic Silences." Pólemos 15, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 65–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pol-2021-2009.
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Abstract The article analyses the political meaning of silence by reflecting on the communicative, autonomous and aesthetic function of silence in context of prevailing political speech systems. In the article, silence is interpreted as an active communication form, as an activist protest tactic and as an aesthetic practice. The article argues that silence can have a politically subversive function toward prevailing aesthetically organised speech systems.Conventionally, silence is devalued in Western societies that primarily celebrate the expressive and communicative capacity of verbal speech. In theorising about radically egalitarian politics, it is however crucial to note the various ways in which silence can be an important source of power. Silence holds the potential for certain active political change in current legal-political frameworks. On the one hand, silence can enable new communication forms and actualise alternative political solidarities and attachments. Also, the logic of oppressive speech systems can be resisted through silent political action. On the other hand, it is in an individual’s own practices of silence, ones that silent protests can bring about in their aftermath, where the sensibility of prevailing political speech orders can be rearranged. The article analyses these many meanings of political silence.
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Mfoafo-M’Carthy, Magnus. "Mama! I hear your silence: Grief and COVID-19 on the Global North and South disparity." Qualitative Social Work 20, no. 1-2 (March 2021): 142–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325020973303.
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In this conversation with Mama, I use my mother’s voice as a reflexive mirror to explore the social work silences that the COVID-19 pandemic expresses so eloquently in my own life and work. I seek to highlight the intimate link between Mama’s silence and social work silence.
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Power-Carter, Stephanie. "RE-THEORIZING SILENCE(S)." Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada 59, no. 1 (April 2020): 99–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/010318136742415912020.
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ABSTRACT This paper describes a telling case account that occurred during an ethnographic study in the United States in a secondary school senior British Literature class with only two African American young women, Pam and Natonya. The telling case complicated silence and also made visible other reflexive processes that provided opportunities to unpack and theorize silence, which led to the articulation of the silence trilogy. Further, it also made visible how the African American woman scholar’s own lived experiences informed her attempt to make sense of how Pam and Natonya navigated the silence(s). This paper will primarily foreground the works of Scholars of Color and use Black feminist and sociolinguistic theory to explore the following question: How did two African-American females in a predominately white educational space negotiate the silence(s) (e.g., silence, silencing, and silenced)? How did the African American woman researchers of color make sense of their negotiation?
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Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu, Liliana. "Keep silent or keep talking!" Language and Dialogue 6, no. 3 (November 28, 2016): 447–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.6.3.05ion.
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The paper approaches silence as a pragmatically relevant component of the dialogue. My aim is to illustrate the diversity of meanings and functions silence can discursively actualize, depending on the communicative situation. As a collectivistic, relationship oriented culture, Romanian culture is characterized by a preference for positive politeness strategies and accordingly by silence avoidance. Special attention will be given to the social, cultural, and individual parameters which determine the speaker to prefer silence to speech, as well as to the receiver’s position towards silence (accepted, rejected, or requested silences). I shall also have in view the relationship between the influence of individual factors and the socio-cultural tradition in actualizing silence. The data are excerpted from some corpora of spoken Romanian, as well as from a number of literary texts, given the fact that usually the latter reflect the prototypical behaviour of certain social groups or of some representatives of these groups.
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Dinkler, Michal Beth. "The Narrative Rhetoric of Speech and Silence in the Acts of the Apostles." New Testament Studies 67, no. 1 (December 15, 2020): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688520000247.
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Approaches to ancient texts that focus exclusively on speech are inherently imbalanced. Far from simply an innocuous absence of language, silence can carry thundering significances. Yet, these meanings are not always obvious, and they can be especially difficult to interpret in texts, without attendant non-verbal cues such as facial expressions or gestures. How can New Testament interpreters best discern and describe the interwoven words, whispers, silences and subtexts of ancient narratives? In this article, I seek to build on my earlier narratological study of speech and silence, Silent Statements: Narrative Representations of Speech and Silence in the Gospel of Luke. There, I demonstrate how focusing on silences as well as speech enriches our understanding of the narratological dimensions of Luke's Gospel, including Lukan plot, characterisation, theme(s) and readerly experience(s). The obvious next step is to extend this work to the Lukan sequel. The guiding question of this article is therefore: how do speech and silence contribute to the narrative rhetoric of the Acts of the Apostles?
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Dressen, Dacia F. "Identifying textual silence in scientific research articles. Recontextualizations of the field account in Geology." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 15, no. 28 (March 2, 2017): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v15i28.25668.
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Long neglected as a primary impetus of study, textual silences abound in such field disciplines as geology, where most field results seem to ‘disappear’ from the published research article. This paper first discusses the nature of textual silence and then proposes a typology of textual silences associated with written scientific discourse. Next, by examining the different disciplinary genres involved in the “recontextualizations” of a fieldwork study in geology, this study seeks to (1) identify textual silence in the various recontextualizations and (2) offer explanations for it.
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Laborie, Pierre. "The Silences of Memory, Memories of Silence." Journal of Area Studies 3, no. 7 (September 1995): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02613539508455754.
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Bao, Dat. "Silence seen through different lenses." Journal of Silence Studies in Education 1, no. 1 (November 29, 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.31763/jsse.v1i1.7.
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The introductory discussion brings academic readers into the first issue by sketching key ideas from all the article contributions and by interacting with them for further insights. In performing this task, the introduction captures a range of perspectives, methods, contents, and arguments, all of which demonstrate the richness of silence in context. A wide range of silences, as they are suggested by the articles in this issue, are summarised, elaborated, and connected into the relevant discourse. In the end, several gaps in silence research are highlighted to inspire scholars who wish to explore silence in more depth.
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Colin, Marjorie. "Le silence en maux dans l’œuvre théâtrale de Samuel Beckett." Quêtes littéraires, no. 7 (December 30, 2017): 142–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/ql.167.
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The silence in Beckett’s plays can be interpreted in many different ways. It often shows the anxiety of the characters faced with the vacuity in their lives. Left to themselves, they hardly manage to let go during these recurring silences (marked in an obsessional way in Beckett’s texts with the word "pause" as an absolute punctuation in the theatrical language). So they really feel the silence as the "arising of nothingness ", a sort of gateway to finitude. This silence is also the one appearing among Beckettian couples to reveal the aporia in language: inability to communicate, "doing" instead of (impossible) "saying". This Beckettian "doing" is shown in a conspicuous gestuality which conveys a certain materiality to this silence as well as it tries desperately to fill it. Thus Beckett’s characters act and give silence some substance, incarnating therefore a full-fledged character. Finally, silence can also embody the religious, at least the expectation (of the divine? in Godot particularly?). This silence grows solemn and reveals a suspension in the speech and characters in search of a follow-up. Silence then becomes the opening of an area where everything is possible since nothing has been said yet, implicitly expressing fantasies of joy and salvation.
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Schweiger, Elisabeth. "Fighting silence covert warfare and the uphill battle against the unsaid." European Journal of International Relations 28, no. 1 (October 24, 2021): 110–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13540661211053830.
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Silences around drone warfare and similar covert state practices have often been encountered as a hurdle that hinders us from understanding and interrogating government acts. Scholars as well as human rights actors have opposed silences in a struggle for greater transparency and have called on governments to speak. Through the case study of drone warfare, this paper analyses the productive role of silences and the political struggle to oppose it. Analysing 125 non-governmental organisation (NGO) reports, UN documents and policy papers, this article investigates how silences are encountered, interpreted and opposed by Western human rights actors. This shows that silence is not encountered as a discrete unit but as interdependent layers of denial, partial withholding of information, redactions, delays, lack of oversight and so on. Situated within unequal power relations, I show how the battle against the unsaid is itself based on what has (not) been heard in Western constructions of drone warfare and risks further enabling violent practices. Discussing ways of subverting the workings of silence, the paper not only contributes to academic literature on covert warfare and silence but also speaks to the practical dilemmas faced by non-state actors who are advocating for more transparency.
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Christie, Ian. "Breaking the Silence (or silents?) Barrier." New Soundtrack 7, no. 2 (September 2017): 165–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/sound.2017.0107.
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Wegener, Mai. "L’enveloppe silenceou le silence de l’analyste." Essaim 36, no. 1 (2016): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ess.036.0141.
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Mulcahy, Sean. "Silence and Attunement in Legal Performance." Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société 34, no. 2 (August 2019): 191–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cls.2019.18.
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AbstractWhilst the law maintains a right to silence, the sensorial and performative dimensions of that silence are seldom considered. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach, informed by legal theory and scholarship in the performing arts, such as theatre, performance studies, and music, as a way of understanding how silence plays in the court. The paper offers a typology to navigate the interpretation of silence in legal performance—both verbal and environmental—and to frame discussion of silence’s impact on the legal audience. The author concludes that silence is used and experienced in a similar way in legal and theatrical performance, namely as a means of attunement. The paper contributes new insights into the existing scholarship on acoustic jurisprudence and invites listening to the gaps in speech, the pauses, the background noise, and the silence in the court.
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Marrouchi, Moez. "Silence in Pinter’s Silence and The Dumb Waiter." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 1, no. 3 (December 31, 2019): 112–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v1i3.62.
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The Silences and pauses, Harold Pinter has employed in his plays, have remarkably encapsulated his mastery of such theatrically effective techniques. It is not just a moment when characters keep silent and the audience cannot hear their utterances; it is a moment so pregnant with meanings that the reader finds it difficult to find his way to the final meaning. Silence in a Pinter play is unexpectedly never silent. When it pervades one has to think deeply of that moment. And when characters stop talking one needs to contemplate their unsaid thoughts. In his paper, I would like to make clear that my intention is to investigate the notions of fear, uncertainty, menace and death evoked when characters pause or keep silent in Pinter’s Silence and The Dumb Waiter. In other words, it is how those moments of silence mark a state of calmness on the one hand and how this state gives way to those of fear and eventually death on the other that I would like to explore and expound in the course of this analysis.
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Sadeghi, Leila. "Discursive Silence: A Tool to Read between the Lines in Persian Stories." International Journal of Linguistics 7, no. 5 (October 29, 2015): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v7i5.8186.
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<p class="1">According to Hemingway, if a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may be silent about seven-eighth of the text (1996: 192). This silence as a notable absence leaves a meaningful trace, which is a marker of written silence. Such silence has an interactive role, employed as a discursive technique in literature to produce a fictional world. Based on this theory, the reader seeks to fill the empty places in the fictional text to understand the story completely. An appropriate device for filling the blanks would be possible through understanding the different six types of silence and its functions. To be exact, the narrative silence is represented in structural, semantic and pragmatic types discussed respectively in three syntagmatic, paradigmatic, and interactive axes. This paper examines these variations of narrative silence in five Persian short stories to analyze the structure of narrative and the creation of the elements of a story by means of silence. The purpose of studying silence is to establish how the narrative structure is based on untold or omitted parts in subtly differing ways, so each kind of silence has its special function in these five stories. Generally, the theory of silence not only proposes a universal pattern for studying fiction, but also suggests a comprehensive analytic tool to study the structuring of narrative that will then allow scholars to differentiate the different silences that constitute styles of fiction writing.</p><div> </div>
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Le, Phuong D., Hui Xun Teo, Augustine Pang, Yuling Li, and Cai-Qin Goh. "When is silence golden? The use of strategic silence in crisis communication." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 24, no. 1 (February 13, 2019): 162–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-10-2018-0108.
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Purpose Scholars have discouraged using silence in crises as it magnifies the information vacuum (see Pang, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to argue for its viability and explore the type of silence that can be used. Design/methodology/approach Eight international cases were analyzed to examine how silence was adopted, sustained and broken. Findings The findings uncovered three intention-based typologies of strategic silence: delaying, avoiding and hiding silences. Among such, avoiding/hiding silence intensified crises and adversely affected post-silence organizational image when forcefully broken, while delaying silence helped preserve/restore image with primary stakeholders if successfully sustained and broken as planned. Research limitations/implications First, these findings may lack generalizability due to the limited number of cases studied. Second, local sentiments may not be fully represented in the English-language news examined as they may be written for a different audience. Finally, a number of cases studied were still ongoing at the time of writing, so the overall effectiveness of the strategy employed might be compromised as future events unfold. Practical implications A stage-based practical guide to adopting delaying silence is proposed as a supporting strategy before the execution of crisis response strategies. Originality/value This is one of the few studies to examine the role of silence in crisis communication as silence is not recognized as a type of response in dominant crisis theories – be it the situational crisis communication theory or the image repair theory (An and Cheng, 2010; Benoit, 2015; Benoit and Pang, 2008; Xu and Li, 2013).
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Keskinen, Mikko. "Book and Radio Play Silences: Medial Pauses and Reticence in ‘Murke's Collected Silences’ by Heinrich Böll." CounterText 5, no. 3 (December 2019): 352–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/count.2019.0170.
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This article analyses silence at the interface between print and audio media by reading and listening to Heinrich Böll's short story ‘Murke's Collected Silences’ (‘Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen’) in its book (1958) and three German-language radio play versions (1965; 1986; 1989). Reference is also made to Benjamin Gwilliam's sound art piece (2007) based on the 1986 adaptation. The Böll story thematises silence and media in various ways, and has definite countertextual aspects, in the sense of technology, textuality, and materiality of language. In the printed story, silence is either verbally named or typographically indicated, whereas the radio plays present or perform it. The comparison of the three silence-related scenes in the Murke radio plays shows considerable variation in the length and manner of pauses. The article considers the differences in receiving silence through print and audio media, and concludes that ‘Murke’ demonstrates, in both formats, that the medium is an integral part of the ‘message’, even the silent one.
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Miñano Mañero, Laura. "Revealing Silences." International Journal of English Studies 24, no. 1 (June 28, 2024): 189–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.548931.
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This paper intends to unravel the nexus between sexual violence and silence in textual and figurative silence in female Holocaust survivors’ writing. I will argue that these tropes allow authors to acknowledge and explore the nature of a gender-specific trauma. The sources under examination encompass Ruth Klüger (2001), Gisella Perl (1948), Judith Magyar-Isaacson (1990), Judith Dribben (1970) and Elzbieta Ettinger (1986), whose works significantly delve into these unspoken realms. I suggest that the tension between the endured sexual violence and the challenges of bearing witness to it is mirrored in these silences, which are infused with narrative strategies that gender the Shoah, illustrate embodied experience and reclaim the victim’s agency. Though feminist Holocaust scholarship has recently turned its focus to the study of sexual violence, its imbrication with silence merits further scrutiny. My approach provides a new framework to stimulate this discussion by igniting the reflection on literary silences.
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Chavarot, Jean Marc. "Silence liberateur. Silence destructeur." Cahiers de Gestalt-thérapie 45, no. 1 (September 14, 2021): 19–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/cges.045.0019.
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