Title: | To Speak or not to Speak. Notes on Silence as a Dialogic Speech Act |
Author: | Răzvan Săftoiu |
Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LXIII (1-2), Section The Anatomy of Speech Acts, p. 115-131 Speech Acts across Time and Space / Actes de language à travers le temps et l’espace Edited by Andra Vasilescu and Cameron Taylor |
p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
Place: | București |
Year: | 2018 |
Abstract: | Silence has been discussed as an important resource of interaction, a pragmatically relevant component of interaction (Jaworski 1997), which has a specific interactional background, being more context-embedded than speech (Tannen 1985, Sifianou 1997). I start from the premise that silence and speech are not contradictory categories, but they are integrated within a continuum. I also consider that silence is an integrative part of human communication and I will dwell upon the idea that eloquent silence (Sifianou 1997, Ephratt 2008) can be considered a dialogic speech act (Weigand 2010) since the speaker has specific intentions, goals, purposes and interests in using silence both as action, to make a claim, and reaction, to fulfil a claim. Using examples from transcriptions of naturally-occurring conversations, I discuss silence as an intentional and purposeful action by which an individual can convey meaningful messages. |
Key words: | silence, dialogic speech act, language in use |
Language: | English |
Links: | pdf html |
Citations to this publication: 0
References in this publication: 3
1 | Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu | Keep silent or keep talking!: Remarks on silence in Romanian culture | LD, 6 (3), 447-463 | 2016 | |
1 | Răzvan Săftoiu | An exercise in the theory of conversational resources | LD, 2 (2), 244-261 | 2012 | |
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