Unspoken A Rhetoric of Silence

Name: Unspoken A Rhetoric of Silence
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ISBN: 9780809325849

ISBN-10: 0809325845

ISBN-13: 9780809325849

Edition: 2004

Authors: Cheryl Glenn

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In our talkative Western culture, speech is synonymous with authority and influence while silence is frequently misheard as passive agreement when it often signifies much more. In her groundbreaking exploration of silence as a significant rhetorical art, Cheryl Glenn articulates the ways in which tactical silence can be as expressive and strategic an instrument of human communication as speech itself. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Drawing from linguistics, phenomenology, feminist studies, anthropology, ethnic studies, and literary analysis,Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silencetheorizes both a cartography and grammar of silence. By mapping the range of spaces silence inhabits, Glenn…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 8/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.748



Preface


Acknowledgments


A Word (or Two) on Terms and Categories



Defining Silence



Engendering Silence



Witnessing Silence



Attesting Silence



Commanding Silence



Opening Silence


Notes


Works Cited


Index