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Part 1 Introductory: introduction - an overview, Adam Jaworski;aesthetic, communicative and political silences in Laurie Anderson'sperformance art, Adam Jaworski. Part 2 Linguistics and pragmatics: silenceand markedness theory, Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak; silence and politeness, MariaSifianou. Part 3 Discourse analysis: silence and the acquisition of status inverbal interaction, Richard J. Watts; discourses of the unsayable - deathimplicative talk in geriatric medical consultations, Nikolas Coupland andJustine Coupland. Part 4 Narrative analysis: silence and revelation in theEnglish traditional ballad, Jeffrey L. Kallen; silent and silenced voices -interactional construction of audience in social work talk, Christopher Hallet al. Part 5 Ethnography of communication: giving street directions - thesilent role of women, Bessie Dendrinos and Emilia Ribeiro Pedro; silence inritual communication, Bohdan Szuchewycz. Part 6 Cross-cultural communication:the silent Finn revisited, Kari Sajavaara and Jaakko Lehtonen; cross-culturalback channels in English refusals - a source of trouble, Noel Houck and SusanM. Gass. Part 7 Beyond language: music and silence, Andrew Edgar; silenceacross modalities, Alina Kwiatkowska; silence in painting - let me count theway, Marcia Hafif; silence and communication in art, Stacie Withers. Part 8Teaching silence: teaching "discovering silence", Karl Patten. Part 9Epilogue: "white and white" - metacommunicative and metaphorical silences,Adam Jaworski.