Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse

1. Introduction
Melani Schröter, Charlotte Taylor

Part I. Comparison as Means to Identify Silence and Absence

2. Not for Twitter: Migration as a Silenced Topic in the 2015 Spanish General Election
Manuel Alcántara-Plá, 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
Alan Partington

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, Dániel Z. Kádár

Part II. Exploring Means that Produce Silence and Absence

8. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Identifying Meaningful Absences in Discourse
Patricia Münchow

9. What’s Not in a Frame? Analysis of Media Representations of the Environmental Refugee
Nina Venkataraman

10. A Discourse Analysis of Absence in Nigerian News Media
Taiwo Oluwaseun Ehineni

Part III. Analysing Surface Indicators of Silence and Absence

11. What the f#@$!: Policing and Performing the Unmentionable in the News
Crispin Thurlow, Jamie Moshin

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

Keywords: Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Media and Communication, Comparative Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics