Activity: Membership types › Member of international network
The Network for Silence Studies conjoins researchers who study the significance of silence in various ways. We share an experience that there seem to be immense amounts of studies in various aspects of silence, but these studies seem to be scattered and struggle to unite into a common field of silence studies. Maybe this is not by accident. The scattered character of silence studies may be based on the slippery character of silence itself. Silence being, as it were, the “outside of language” is difficult to embrace or comprehend in linguistic terms, without at the same time reducing its richness or manifold features. Thus, the Network of Silence Studies does not aim to unite all research in the significance of silence into one overall discipline. On the contrary, we embrace the manifold approaches to silence and believe that such silence studies essentially benefit from multidisciplinary approaches engaging with each other. The network thus welcomes every scholar who is fascinated by silence studies, and who want to contribute to the ongoing research.