Unspoken
Subtitle: A Rhetoric of Silence
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University; Southern Illinois University Press
Published: August 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780809325849
Subjects: Women's Studies - General; Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Speech; Silence
Description: N 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. Drawing from linguistics, phenomenology, feminist studies, anthropology, ethnic studies, and literary analysis, Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence theorizes both a cartography and grammar of silence. By mapping the range of spaces silence inhabits, Glenn offers a new interpretation of its complex variations and uses.