LINGUIST List 21.4682 Sun Nov 21 2010 Confs: Pragmatics/United Kingdom Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Dennis Kurzon , Pragmatics of Silence Message 1: Pragmatics of Silence Date: 20-Nov-2010 From: Dennis Kurzon <kurzonresearch.haifa.ac.il> Subject: Pragmatics of Silence E-mail this message to a friend The Pragmatics of Silence Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 10-Jul-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact: Dennis Kurzon Contact Email: kurzonresearch.haifa.ac.il Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics Meeting Description: Silence as a field in pragmatics, and in linguistics in general, has become over the years widely researched. From almost isolated articles, which appeared in the late 1960s and in the 1970s (e.g. Basso 1970, Bruneau 1973, Vernon 1973, Johannesen 1974), there has since been an explosion in the number of studies that have been published. We have a number of collections (Tannen and Saville-Troike 1985; Jaworski 1997, 2005), books (Jaworski 1993, Kurzon 1997), and not an insignificant number of articles in linguistics, pragmatics and semiotics journals. Research into silence has covered an extensive range of areas, frequently, but not exclusively, from an interdisciplinary perspective: from silence in conversation, silence as a means of asserting power, the right of silence in criminal investigations, ethnographic studies of silence, silence in the cinema, in painting and in music, to silence in written, including literary, texts.The proposed papers in the panel, too, cover a broad range of research on silence, each relating to an interface between pragmatics and another discipline. From an analysis of silence within linguistics (Ephratt), we move to silence in sociolinguistics, or if preferable, societal pragmatics (Kurzon), and then to silence in three types of written texts: firstly, in two literary genres - short stories (Sadeghi) and graphic novels (Adler), then in mythological texts written in an ancient language (Miller), and finally in religio-literary texts (de Vela-Santos). Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.