Even when the audience doesn’t seem to do anything, it is in fact doing something: The audience is always co-author (Duranti, 1991, p . 137).
It’s the silence that counts, not the applause. Anybody can have applause. But the silence before and during the performance – that’s the best of all (Vladimir Horowitz; cited in Hanssen, 2007, July 23, p. 29; our translation).
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O’Connell, D.C., Kowal, S. (2008). Applause and Other Audience Reactions. In: Communicating with One Another. Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77632-3_18
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