May 2005
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Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
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May 2005
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7 Reads
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14 Citations
Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
... The starting point of this study is that silence is of vital significance in human communication. As many authors have argued, silence is not the absence of noise but part of communication, often as important as speech (Jaworski, 2005;Tannen, 1984). Communication scholars indicate that the meanings associated with silence are not universal in nature, but defined by the cultural context (Krieger, 2001;Sifianou, 1997). ...
May 2005
Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication