Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse

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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

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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.  

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