Silence and its Derivatives

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Silences in History, Linguistics, and Literature: An Introduction

   • Mahshid Mayar, Marion Schulte

   Pages 1-18

3. Towards an Ontology of Silence in Music

   • Johannes Voit

   Pages 19-41

4. Linguistic Considerations on the Awkward Silence

   • Simon Betz

   Pages 43-62

5. Dissonant Silence: Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Silence

   • Ulf Olsson

   Pages 63-86

6. Talkative and Taciturn Nations: Ethnographic and Political Perspectives in European Discourses on Communicative Cultures (c. 1750–1850)

   • Theo Jung

   Pages 87-108

7. Corpus-Linguistic and Cultural-Cognitive Perspectives on Silence in Black South African English

   • Arne Peters

   Pages 109-129

8. Organic Archives and Generative Silence: A Case Study of the Nlele Institute’s Photographic Archives

   • Erin Dickey, Carol Magee

   Pages 131-159

9. Voices in a Silenced Archive: The Photographs of the Menage Scientific Expedition

   • Mark Rice

   Pages 161-178

10. Silence as Masquerade: Punctuation, Prosody, and Performance in “A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease”

    • Mahshid Mayar

    Pages 179-197

11. The Hatred of Speech and the Poetics of Silence

    • Thomas Gould

    Pages 199-213

12. Night and Silence: Five Breaths at the End of the World

    • Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

    Pages 215-233

13. No Quiet Place—Breaking the Silence, Speaking the Unspeakable, or: How Cultural Critique Thrives on a Paradox

    • Sabine Sielke

    Pages 235-254

14. Frankenstein’s Resounding Silence on Industrialisation: An Ecocritical Reading of the Novel’s Production and Reception

    • Ellen Grünkemeier

    Pages 255-272

15. “No noise of any kind”—Silence and Silencing in First World War Correspondence

    • Frauke Griese

    Pages 273-292

16. The Body Without Organs: On Silencing the Self

    • Steven L. Bindeman

    Pages 293-309

17. The Silences and Silencing of First Languages Among L2 Speakers of English in Ireland

    • Marion Schulte

    Pages 311-330

18. Silencing the Winning Opposition: An Irish Pre-election Interview

    • Bettina Migge

    Pages 331-347

19. Back Matter

    Pages 349-359

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This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts such as historical archives, day-to-day conversations, modern poetry, creative writing clubs, and visual novels, among others. The contributions engage with the historical shifts in how silence and silencing have been viewed, conceptualized and recorded throughout the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, then present a series of case studies from disciplines including linguistics, history, literature and culture, and geographical settings ranging from Argentina to the Philippines, Nigeria, Ireland, Morocco, Japan, South Africa, and Vietnam. Through these examples, the authors underline the thematic and methodological contact zones between different fields and traditions, providing a stimulating and truly interdisciplinary volume that will be of interest to scholars across the humanities. 

• discourse studies
• postcolonial studies
• archival science
• Caribbean
• Ancient Rome
• Nigeria
• United States
• Canada
• Senegal
• Ireland
• Austria

• Department of British and American Studies, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

  Mahshid Mayar

• University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  Marion Schulte

 Mahshid Mayar is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. 

 Marion Schulte is Professor of English Linguistics at University of Rostock, Germany.