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Silence and its Derivatives

Conversations Across Disciplines

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Editors:
  1. Mahshid Mayar

    1. Department of British and American Studies, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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  2. Marion Schulte

    1. University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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  • Examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse

  • Underlines the thematic and methodological contact zones between different fields and traditions

  • Aims to flesh out conceptual and methodological similarities and differences across disciplines

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Silences in History, Linguistics, and Literature: An Introduction

    • Mahshid Mayar, Marion Schulte
    Pages 1-18

  3. Towards an Ontology of Silence in Music

    • Johannes Voit
    Pages 19-41

  4. Linguistic Considerations on the Awkward Silence

    • Simon Betz
    Pages 43-62

  5. Dissonant Silence: Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Silence

    • Ulf Olsson
    Pages 63-86

  6. Talkative and Taciturn Nations: Ethnographic and Political Perspectives in European Discourses on Communicative Cultures (c. 1750–1850)

    • Theo Jung
    Pages 87-108

  7. Corpus-Linguistic and Cultural-Cognitive Perspectives on Silence in Black South African English

    • Arne Peters
    Pages 109-129

  8. Organic Archives and Generative Silence: A Case Study of the Nlele Institute’s Photographic Archives

    • Erin Dickey, Carol Magee
    Pages 131-159

  9. Voices in a Silenced Archive: The Photographs of the Menage Scientific Expedition

    • Mark Rice
    Pages 161-178

  10. Silence as Masquerade: Punctuation, Prosody, and Performance in “A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease”

    • Mahshid Mayar
    Pages 179-197

  11. The Hatred of Speech and the Poetics of Silence

    • Thomas Gould
    Pages 199-213

  12. Night and Silence: Five Breaths at the End of the World

    • Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
    Pages 215-233

  13. No Quiet Place—Breaking the Silence, Speaking the Unspeakable, or: How Cultural Critique Thrives on a Paradox

    • Sabine Sielke
    Pages 235-254

  14. Frankenstein’s Resounding Silence on Industrialisation: An Ecocritical Reading of the Novel’s Production and Reception

    • Ellen Grünkemeier
    Pages 255-272

  15. “No noise of any kind”—Silence and Silencing in First World War Correspondence

    • Frauke Griese
    Pages 273-292

  16. The Body Without Organs: On Silencing the Self

    • Steven L. Bindeman
    Pages 293-309

  17. The Silences and Silencing of First Languages Among L2 Speakers of English in Ireland

    • Marion Schulte
    Pages 311-330

  18. Silencing the Winning Opposition: An Irish Pre-election Interview

    • Bettina Migge
    Pages 331-347

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 349-359
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About this book

This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts such as historical archives, day-to-day conversations, modern poetry, creative writing clubs, and visual novels, among others. The contributions engage with the historical shifts in how silence and silencing have been viewed, conceptualized and recorded throughout the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, then present a series of case studies from disciplines including linguistics, history, literature and culture, and geographical settings ranging from Argentina to the Philippines, Nigeria, Ireland, Morocco, Japan, South Africa, and Vietnam. Through these examples, the authors underline the thematic and methodological contact zones between different fields and traditions, providing a stimulating and truly interdisciplinary volume that will be of interest to scholars across the humanities. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of British and American Studies, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

    Mahshid Mayar

  • University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Marion Schulte

About the editors

 Mahshid Mayar is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. 

 Marion Schulte is Professor of English Linguistics at University of Rostock, Germany. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Silence and its Derivatives

  • Book Subtitle: Conversations Across Disciplines

  • Editors: Mahshid Mayar, Marion Schulte

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06523-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06522-4Published: 04 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06525-5Published: 05 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06523-1Published: 03 September 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 359

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Literature, general, Cultural Studies, Cultural History

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