A Pragmatic Analysis of Silence in an American Constitutional Issue

• Authors: Dennis Kurzon
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper provides further evidence for a typology of silence, viz conversational, textual and situational silence. Some of the problems in the typology are dealt with, for example, a clearer distinction is made between conversational silence, on the one hand, and textual and situational silence on the other. The distinction between textual and situational silence is further illustrated against the background of controversial court cases in the United States concerning "moment of silence" legislation in a number of states.

Keywords

EN

silence; conversational; textual; situational; constitutionality; religion clause

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Journal: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-66

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2010-06-30

Contributors

author

Dennis Kurzon

• University of Haifa, Israel

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10016-010-0001-2