Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse Empirical Approaches

“The studies presented in this book provide meaningful results and show relevant empirical routes into the study of absence and silence in discourse, thus filling in an important gap in literature.” (Fernanda Andrioli, Language in Society, Vol. 48 (3), June, 2019)

Melani Schröter
is Associate Professor in German Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK, and the author of
Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse
(2013). Her research interests include political discourse analysis, silence and absence in discourse and communication, comparative analyses of European migration discourses, and discourses of resistance.  
Charlotte Taylor
is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sussex, UK, and Editor of
CADAAD
Journal. Her research specialisms include impoliteness implicatures, and discourses of migration, and she has a longstanding interest in methodological issues.