Title: Perspectives on silence /
Authors: Tannen, Deborah.; Saville-Troike, Muriel,
Date: 1985
Publisher: Ablex Pub. Corp.,
Physical description: xviii, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: The place of silence in an integrated theory of communication / Muriel Saville-Troike -- 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 -- 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 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 -- Interaction structured through talk and interaction structured through 'silence' / Susan U. Philips -- Some uses of gesture / Adam Kendon -- A sampling of sources on silence / Emma Munoz-Duston & Judith D. Kaplan.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Communication.; Silence.; Social interaction.