About the paper 'Taxonomy of Silence'
My paper uses two general definitions of silence: firstly, silence is the absence of sound and utterance, which I term ‘direct silence’, and secondly, silence is the omission of mention or remark from narration, which I term ‘implied silence’. My paper proposes a taxonomy that sees the necessity of looking at silence, as a literary phenomenon in its own right, as the precondition of studying it in literature. In other words, a taxonomy of silence that takes the semantic, semiotic and discursive relations between silence and literature into account when analysing and interpreting it.


About the 4th Seminar:
'Research seminar no. 4 focuses on the relation between silence and resonance. How can silence manifest itself? The basic assumption is that we can only gain access to silence through its respective contexts of communication. Silence can re-sound non-verbally in facial expressions, gestures, atmospheres and the gaps of the unsaid or unsayable in the midst of spoken or written language. Thus, the notion of ‘resonance’ plays a crucial role in the investigation of how we can ‘listen’ to silence and understand its meaning.' (Text taken from the official website of the event)