@inbook{1661999b397c4fe09f688182127aec57,
title = "Das Schweigen - eine verschwiegene Sprachhandlung?: {\"U}berlegungen aus der Sicht der Kontrastiven Pragmatik",
abstract = "In my paper I shall argue that semiotically silence (i.e. nonverbal acting) like speaking (i.e. verbal acting) offers a way of expressing a speech act. Yet it must be emphasized that silence cannot always be interpreted as a speech act signifier. Thus pauses, intentional or unintentional ones, during the flow of speech and at the end of a turn normally carry no semiotic function. However, whenever silence occurs where speaking is expected, i.e. when verbal and nonverbal acting are forming a paradigm, silence does carry semiotic function. In this case, a clear distinction has to be made between intracultural and intercultural communication situations. In a certain communication situation silence might be intraculturally insignificant, whereas interculturally it might very well be significant and vice-versa. Therefore silence is also of high importance for the didactics of foreign languages. ",
keywords = "Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Lingvistisk pragmatik, Sproghandlinger, Schweigen",
author = "Peter Colliander",
year = "2015",
language = "Tysk",
isbn = "978-3-631-65273-2",
series = "Sprache - Kommunikation - Kultur. Soziolinguistische Beitr{\"a}ge",
publisher = "Peter Lang",
pages = "307--319",
editor = "Corinna Peschel and Runschke, {Kerstin }",
booktitle = "Sprachvariation und Sprachreflexion in interkulturellen Kontexten",
}