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Publication details [#53795]

Wooffitt, R. and Nicola Holt. 2010. Silence and its organization in the pragmatics of introspection. Discourse Studies 12 (3) : 379–406.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

consciousness | introspection | performative | pragmatic function | silence

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discerns the normative characteristics of silence, and delineates some of the pragmatic or performative functions eased by silence. It then discusses implications for the more general deployment of introspective data in consciousness study.