Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Not for Twitter: Migration as a Silenced Topic in the 2015 Spanish General Election

Chapter 3 Absence in Visual Narratives: The Story of Iran and Pakistan across Time

Chapter 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

Chapter 5 Cross-media Studies as a Method to Uncover Patterns of Silence and Linguistic Discrimination of Sexual Minorities in Ugandan Print Media

Chapter 6 Critically Illuminating Relevant Absences in Public Sphere Arguments via Digital Mining of Their Weblinks: A Software-based Pedagogy

Chapter 7 Silence and Absence in Chinese Smog Discourses

Chapter 8 Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Identifying Meaningful Absences in Discourse

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

Chapter 10 A Discourse Analysis of Absence in Nigerian News Media

Chapter 11 What the f#@$!: Policing and Performing the Unmentionable in the News

Chapter 12 The Use of No Comment by Suspects in Police Interviews

Chapter 13 Conspicuous by Presence: The Empty Signifier ‘Interdisciplinarity’ and the Representation of Absence