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Discourse and Silencing: Representation and the language of displacementEdited by Lynn Thiesmeyer
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 5] 2003
► pp. v–viii
Edited by Lynn Thiesmeyer
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 5] 2003
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
1. Introduction: Silencing in discourse
I. Gender and the discourses of privacy
Introduction
2. Silencing talk of men’s violence towards women
3. Conversational styles and ellipsis in Japanese couples’ conversations
II. Law and institutional discourses
Introduction
4. Quiet in the court: Attorneys’ silencing strategies during courtroom cross-examination
5. Telling bits: Silencing and the narratives behind prison walls
III. National politics and the discourses of exclusion
Introduction
6. Discourses of silence: Anti-Semitic discourse in post-war Austria
7. Silencing by law: The 1981 Polish ‘performances and publications control act’
8. News discourse of Aboriginal resistance in Canada
IV. Coda: Performance discourse and meta-commentaries on silencing
Introduction
9. Political silencing: A view from Laurie Anderson’s performance art
Notes on contributors
Name index
Subject index
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