Textual silence and the discourse of homelessness  

Oleh:

Huckin, Thomas N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Society (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 3 (May 2002), page 347-372.
Topik: content analysis; context models; elision; framing; homelessness; intentionality; omission; public discourse; rhetorical manipulation; textual absences; textual silence; the unsaid
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This article delineates five forms of textual elision or ‘silence’: speech–act silences, presuppositional silences, discreet silences, genre-based silences and manipulative silences. Manipulative silence receives extended attention, as it is felt to be the most ideologically powerful form of silence in public discourse. A case study on the discourse of homelessness, drawing on a corpus of 163 newspaper articles and editorials published in the US during early 1999, is used to illustrate how manipulative silences work and, more importantly, how they can be systematically identified by the discourse analyst. The article concludes with a discussion of the notion of authorial ‘intentionality’.

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