Provides a significant contribution to studies of silence, absence and discourse
Fills a lacuna by approaching these topics from a social science-based perspective
Analyses how new and old media alike are silent on certain issues
This book fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse. It presents a range of proposals as to how we can identify and analyse what is absent, and promotes the empirical study of absence and silence in discourse. The authors argue that these phenomena should hold a more central position in the field of discourse, and discuss these two topics at length in this innovative edited collection. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis.
Melani Schröter
is Associate Professor in German Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK, and the author of
Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse
(2013). Her research interests include political discourse analysis, silence and absence in discourse and communication, comparative analyses of European migration discourses, and discourses of resistance.
Charlotte Taylor
is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sussex, UK, and Editor of
CADAAD
Journal. Her research specialisms include impoliteness implicatures, and discourses of migration, and she has a longstanding interest in methodological issues.
"The studies presented in this book provide meaningful results and show relevant empirical routes into the study of absence and silence in discourse, thus filling in an important gap in literature." (Fernanda Andrioli, Language in Society, Vol. 48 (3), June, 2019)
