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Unspeakable : the things we cannot say
\"As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking for almost a year, retreating into herself and communicating only when absolutely necessary. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language and in Unspeakable she asks what makes us silent. From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Shawcross explores how and why words fail us\"--Dustjacket flap.
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The Letters
In the silence, I waited, studying a filmy rainbow on the wall and following it to its source, the late afternoon light bouncing off the metal strip of her pine handkerchief box and spreading across the big pink roses on the wall. Granny cleared her throat, raked her fingers over her knees and took a deep breath, \"What I'm trying to say is, you know how your momma and daddy argue all the time, and your daddy had to go work in Florida when the mines closed down last year?\" The words rushed out before she could call them back. [...]he's mad at me for sending your mother's letters to him, the way I did, you know, in that other envelope.\" Why didn't I refuse to go along, refuse to be part of her schemes? Because another one of those rules said \"obey your parents, no matter what\"?
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The lost art of silence : reconnecting to the power and beauty of quiet
\"The Lost Art of Silence encourages us to embrace this pursuit and allow the warm light of silence to glow. Invoking the wisdom of many of the greatest writers, thinkers, contemplatives, historians, musicians, and artists, Sarah Anderson reveals the sublime nature of quiet that's all too often undervalued. Throughout, she shares her own penetrating insights into the potential for silence to transform us. This celebration of silence invites us to widen our perspective and shows its power to inspire the human spirit in spite of the distracting noise of contemporary life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Democracy and the politics of silence
Most people equate democracy with discussion, speech, and making one's voice heard. But where does silence fit in? Democracy and the Politics of Silence investigates the largely overlooked role of silence in democratic politics. It challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that silence can support and affirm democratic pillars and outcomes like empowerment, inclusion, and equality.
The book focuses on a particular set of problems concerning the relationship between political silence and the democratic triad of voice, agency, and representation. Each of the book's chapters draws on a selection of hand-picked case studies, both historical and contemporary, including the NAACP's Silent Parade in 1917, demonstrations by the Women in Black, Spain's post-Franco Pact of Forgetting, Trump's silent majority, debates related to the representation of nonhuman beings, and the famous Miranda judgment on the right to silence. Together they offer an innovative, ambitious investigation of democratically undesirable silences and practices of silence that are powerfully affirmative of democratic subjectivities, aims, and norms. In thus expanding the repertoire of democratic citizenship, Mónica Brito Vieira invites readers to consider what silence might teach them about democracy.
This timely book should appeal to political science students and scholars as well as anyone interested in the history of democracies and popular resistance movements.
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Employee silence motives: Investigation of dimensionality and development of measures
In four studies, I examine the motives for employee silence. In Study 1, I examine open-ended survey responses to determine the nature and scope of silence motives. Study 2 develops measures of these motives and explores their factor structure. Study 3 refines the measures and provides confirmatory evidence of factor structure. Study 4 examines relationships between the new measures and related factors (employee voice, psychological safety, neuroticism, extraversion). Results indicate that six dimensions of silence motives (ineffectual, relational, defensive, diffident, disengaged, and deviant) emerged from the data, which can be reliably measured and provide incremental value for understanding and assessing employee silence.
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