Daniel N. Silva

List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniel N. Silva plays a role.

Titles

The Pragmatics of Adaptability

Edited by Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 319] 2021. vi, 358 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Daniel N. Silva

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 279] 2017. vi, 250 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Circulating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography

Edited by Daniel N. Silva

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 6:2 (2015) vi, 144 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

Silva, Daniel N. and Branca Falabella Fabrício 2021 Chapter 6. Self-containment and contamination: Two competing circuits of adaptabilityThe Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 117–142 | Chapter
This chapter explores two competing models of adaptation of discourses: self-containment and contamination. The first model is contradictorily a non-adaptable framework that scales the social circulation of text and talk as expandable, i.e. scalable, yet seemingly un-modifiable in its expansion.… read more
Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey 2021 Introduction: The ability to form and transform in pragmaticsThe Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Introduction
Silva, Daniel N. 2017 Chapter 4. The circulation of violence in discourseLanguage and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 107–124 | Chapter
This paper examines two hypotheses concerning the relationship between language and violence. (1) Language does not merely represent violence, but enacts its own type of violence. (2) The use of violent language participates in the demarcation of political and subjective viability in the public… read more
Silva, Daniel N. 2017 Investigating violence in language: An introductionLanguage and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 1–30 | Chapter
Silva, Daniel N. 2015 Introduction: The pragmatics of discourse circulationCirculating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 161–174 | Article
Silva, Daniel N., Adriana Facina and Adriana Carvalho Lopes 2015 Complex territories, complex circulations: The 'pacification' of the Complexo do Alemão in Rio de JaneiroCirculating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 175–196 | Article
The Complexo do Alemão, a group of 12 favelas in Rio de Janeiro, attracted the attention of Brazilian and International corporate media when the police and the army ‘pacified’ the favelas in 2010. Part of a broader political and economic project to make Rio de Janeiro ‘safe for large-scale events,… read more