Publications

Publication details [#51074]

Mushin, Ilana and Rod Gardner. 2009. Silence is talk: Conversational silence in Australian Aboriginal talk-in-interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (10) : 2033–2052.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aboriginal | conversational analysis | ethnography | silence | talk-in-interaction

Language as a subject

English, American | English, Australian | English, Australian Aboriginal

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This conversation analytic study on the meaning of the tolerance of longer silences in Australian Aboriginal talk-in-interaction, compares the duration, spread and management of these silences with the knowledge on silences in Anglo-Australian and American talk.