3. Conversational styles and ellipsis in Japanese couples’ conversations

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. I. Gender and the discourses of privacy
6. Introduction 37
7. 2. Silencing talk of men’s violence towards women 43
8. 3. Conversational styles and ellipsis in Japanese couples’ conversations 79
9. II. Law and institutional discourses
10. Introduction 113
11. 4. Quiet in the court 119
12. 5. Telling bits 139
13. III. National politics and the discourses of exclusion
14. Introduction 173
15. 6. Discourses of silence 179
16. 7. Silencing by law 211
17. 8. News discourse of Aboriginal resistance in Canada 233
18. IV. Coda: Performance discourse and meta-commentaries on silencing
19. Introduction 275
20. 9. Political silencing: A view from Laurie Anderson’s performance art 279
21. Notes on contributors 297
22. Name index 299
23. Subject index 305