Speech in non-ideal conditions: On silence and being silenced

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In this chapter I show that idealizing assumptions can obscure conversational dynamics because they neglect power differentials that are crucial enablers of the successful performance of some speech acts (see, Sbisà, 2020). I examine how silencing is promoted by conversational norms that would defeasibly entitle linguistic agents to presume that silence indicates acceptance. I focus on Goldberg’s (2020) discussion of these phenomena. Goldberg argues in support of a norm of no silent rejections claiming that silencing is partly the result of the misapplication of this norm. He further defends the view that the norm itself is part of the solution to the problem of silencing. In the chapter I argue that Goldberg is mistaken on these points. Instead, drawing inspiration from Sbisà (2020), I argue that norms of no silent rejection are temporarily enacted by means of speech acts that function as exercitive assertions.

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original Tanesini, Alessandra (2023) "Speech in non-ideal conditions: On silence and being silenced". In Caponetto, Laura, Labinaz, Paolo, Sbisà on Speech as Action, pp. 2147483647-2147483647: Palgrave-Macmillan (2023)

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