LEADER 04576nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910462879703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a90-272-7210-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000360741 035 $a(EBL)1186391 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000873163 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475114 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873163 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10865882 035 $a(PQKB)11070265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1186391 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1186391 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10698303 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL489787 035 $a(OCoLC)843860478 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000360741 100 $a20130118d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSilence and concealment in political discourse$b[electronic resource] /$fMelani Schro?ter 210 $aAmsterdam $cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 225 1 $aDiscourse approaches to politics, society and culture,$x1569-9463 ;$vv. 48 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-0639-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aSilence and Concealment in Political Discourse; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of abbreviations; Notes on translations in this book:; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Intention, expectation and relevance; 2.1 The physical absence of speech; 2.2 Making sense of the absence of speech; 2.3 Context; 2.4 Communicativeness of silence in political discourse; Chapter 3. Empirical study of silence; 3.1 Why metadiscourse?; 3.2 What metadiscourse?; 3.3 Critical discourse analysis of metadiscourse 327 $aChapter 4. Remaining silent and waiting until the dust settles 4.1 Overt refusal to reveal; 4.2 Evasion; 4.3 The meaning of silence: Claims and challenges; 4.3.1 Not knowing about X; 4.3.2 A question of honour; 4.3.3 Right as a witness to remain silent; 4.4 Expectations of speech; 4.5 Taking expectations into account: Kohl emphasizes his readiness to speak out; 4.6 Conclusion: The extent of silence; Chapter 5. Dangerous intelligence; 5.1 The meanings of silence; 5.2 Expectations of speech; 5.3 Claiming and challenging reasonable silence; 5.4 Claiming and challenging guilty silence 327 $a5.5 Conclusion: Handling secrecy and revelation Chapter 6. Hiding or highlighting; 6.1 Dr Merkel's collected silences; 6.2 Expectations of speech; 6.3 Silence as rhetorical strategy; 6.4 Silence as gendered rhetorical strategy?; 6.5 Conclusion; Chapter 7. What needs to be said; 7.1 Democracy, transparency, publicity; 7.2 Communicative culture; 7.3 Who cares: Advocates of the demand to speak out; 7.4 Democratic rituals and reinforced ideals; References; Archive Material; Chapter 4 Parliamentary Inquiry; Hearing protocols; Chapter 5 Parliamentary Inquiry; Hearing protocols; Literature 327 $aAppendix. German originals of translated quotations from primary sources Author index; Subject index 330 $aThis book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical study of silence by analysing metadiscourse about politicians' silence and by systematically conceptualising the communicativeness of silence in the interplay between intention (to be silent), expectation (of speech) and relevance (of the unsaid). Three cases of sustained metadiscourse about silent politicians fro 410 0$aDiscourse approaches to politics, society and culture ;$vv. 48. 606 $aDiscourse analysis$xPolitical aspects 606 $aLanguage and languages$xPolitical aspects 606 $aSilence 606 $aCommunication$xPolitical aspects 606 $aCommunication in politics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDiscourse analysis$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aSilence. 615 0$aCommunication$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aCommunication in politics. 676 $a320.01/41 700 $aSchro?ter$b Melani$0898190 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462879703321 996 $aSilence and concealment in political discourse$92006817 997 $aUNINA