Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse

1 Introduction; Melani Schröter and Charlotte Taylor.- Part I Comparison as Means to Identify Silence and Absence.- 2 Not for Twitter: Migration as a Silenced Topic in the Spanish General Election; Manuel Alcántara-Plá and Ana Ruiz-Sánchez.- 3 Absence in Visual Narratives: The Story of Iran and Pakistan across Time; Sameera Durrani.- 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 ; Alan Partington. - 5 Cross-media Studies as a Method to Uncover Patterns of Silence and Linguistic Discrimination of Sexual Minorities in Ugandan Print Media; Cecilia Strand.- 6 Critically Illuminating Relevant Absences in Public Sphere Arguments via Digital Mining of Their Weblinks: A Software-based Pedagogy; Kieran O'Halloran.- 7 Silence and Absence in Chinese Smog Discourses; Jiayi Wang and Dániel Z. Kádár.- Part II Exploring Means that Produce Silence and Absence.-8 Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Identifying Meaningful Absences in Discourse; Patricia von Münchow.- 9 What's Not in a Frame? Analysis of Media Representations of the Environmental Refugee; Nina Venkataraman.- 10 A Discourse Analysis of Absence in Nigerian News Media; Taiwo Oluwaseun Ehineni. - Part III Analysing Surface Indicators of Silence and Absence. - 11 What the f#@$!: Policing and Performing the Unmentionable in the News; Crispin Thurlow and Jamie Moshin.- 12 The Use of No Comment by Suspects in Police Interviews; Joanna Garbutt.- 13 Conspicuous by Presence: The Empty Signifier 'Interdisciplinarity' and the Representation of Absence; Dorte Madsen