Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse: Empirical Approaches

1 Introduction

Melani Schröter and Charlotte Taylor 

Part I Comparison as Means to Identify Silence and Absence 

2 Not for Twitter: Migration as a Silenced Topic in the Spanish General Election

Manuel Alcántara-Plá and Ana Ruiz-Sánchez 

3 Absence in Visual Narratives: The Story of Iran and Pakistan across Time

Sameera Durrani 

4 Intimations of 'Spring'? What Got Said and What Didn't Get Said about the Start of the Middle Eastern/North African Uprisings: A Corpus-assisted Discourse Study of a Historical Event

5 Cross-media Studies as a Method to Uncover Patterns of Silence and Linguistic Discrimination of Sexual Minorities in Ugandan Print Media

Cecilia Strand 

6 Critically Illuminating Relevant Absences in Public Sphere Arguments via Digital Mining of Their Weblinks: A Software-based Pedagogy

Kieran O'Halloran 

7 Silence and Absence in Chinese Smog Discourses

Jiayi Wang and Dániel Z. Kádár 

Part II Exploring Means that Produce Silence and Absence 

Patricia von Münchow 

9 What's Not in a Frame? Analysis of Media Representations of the Environmental Refugee

Nina Venkataraman 

Taiwo Oluwaseun Ehineni 

Part III Analysing Surface Indicators of Silence and Absence 

11 What the f#@$!: Policing and Performing the Unmentionable in the News

12 The Use of No Comment by Suspects in Police Interviews

Joanna Garbutt 

13 Conspicuous by Presence: The Empty Signifier 'Interdisciplinarity' and the Representation of Absence

Dorte Madsen 

Index