Silence and its Derivatives

Chapter 1. Silences in History, Linguistics, and Literature: An Introduction (Mahshid Mayar and Marion Schulte).- Chapter 2. Towards an Ontology of Silence in Music (Johannes Voit).- Chapter 3. Linguistic Considerations on the Awkward Silence (Simon Betz).- Chapter 4. Dissonant Silence: Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Silence (Ulf Olsson).- Chapter 5. Talkative and Taciturn Nations: Ethnographic and Political Perspectives in European Discourses on Communicative Cultures (c. 1750-1850) (Theo Jung).- Chapter 6. Corpus-Linguistic and Cultural-Cognitive Perspectives on Silence in Black South African English (Arne Peters).- Chapter 7. Organic Archives and Generative Silence: A Case Study of The Nlele Institute's Photographic Archives (Erin Dickey and Carol Magee).- Chapter 8. Voices in a Silenced Archive: The Photographs of the Menage Scientific Expedition (Mark Rice).- Chapter 9. Silence as Masquerade: Punctuation, Prosody, and Performance in 'A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease' (Mahshid Mayar).- Chapter 10. The Hatred of Speech and the Poetics of Silence (Thomas Gould).- Chapter 11. Night and Silence: Five Breaths at the End of the World (Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh).- Chapter 12. No Quiet Place - Breaking the Silence, Speaking the Unspeakable, or: How Cultural Critique Thrives on a Paradox (Sabine Sielke).- Chapter 13. Frankenstein's Resounding Silence on Industrialisation: An Ecocritical Reading of the Novel's Production and Reception (Ellen Grünkemeier).- Chapter 14.  "No noise of any kind" - Silence and Silencing in First World War Correspondence (Frauke Griese).- Chapter 15. The Body Without Organs: On Silencing the Self (Steven Bindeman).- Chapter 16. The Silences and Silencing of First Languages Among L2 Speakers of English in Ireland (Marion Schulte).- Chapter 17. Silencing the Winning Opposition: An Irish Pre-Election Interview (Bettina Migge)

 Mahshid Mayar is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.  Marion Schulte is Professor of English Linguistics at University of Rostock, Germany.