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Discourse of silence /
The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency pair...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©1998.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 49. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency pairs to the interpretation of silence. A model is presented which attempts to explain the observer's cognitive competence, and its limits, in being able to interpret the silent answer. A basic distinction is also made between intentional silence (the refusal to answer) and non-intentional silence (the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 161 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical reference (pages 147-155) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027282606 9027282609 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |