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This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical study of silence by analysing metadiscourse about politicians' silence and by systematically conceptualising the communicativeness of silence in the interplay between intention (to be silent), expectation (of speech) and relevance (of the unsaid). Three cases of sustained metadiscourse about silent politicians fro

This article suggests that the addressees as the dialogical 'other' loom large in monological political speeches. However, political speeches are produced under conditions of addressee heterogeneity, i.e. the speakers do not actually know who they will be talking to. It will be argued that the addressees are nevertheless a crucial element in speakers' context models, that speakers orientate towards imagined addressees and that certain aspects – what possible addressees may do, think or believe and that they are a part of an imagined community – are particularly relevant from the speakers' point of view. An analysis of addressee orientation in political speeches aims at reconstructing speakers' conceptualisations of possible addressees. The analysis reveals patterns of addressee orientation which suggest that the addressees are framed in terms of epistemic proximity, i.e. presumed nearness (agreement) or distance (disagreement) to the speakers. Both presumed agreement and disagreement will be discussed in terms of how the speakers aim to impose their default perspectives on the addressees. The analysis is based on examples from a substantial corpus of German chancellors' political speeches from 1951–2001.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Conceptualising Meaningful Silence and Absence in Discourse -- 1.2 Manifestations of Silence and Absence -- 1.3 Methodological Approaches to Meaningful Silence and Absence in Discourse -- 1.3.1 Comparison as a Means to Identify Absence -- 1.3.2 Exploring Means That Produce Absence -- 1.3.3 Analysing Metadiscursive References as Indicators of Silence and Absence -- 1.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Comparison as Means to Identify Silence and Absence -- 2: Not for Twitter: Migration as a Silenced Topic in the 2015 Spanish General Election -- 2.1 Silencing in the Digital Debate -- 2.1.1 Silenced Topics -- 2.1.2 Silence and Power -- 2.1.3 Digital Silence -- 2.2 The Corpus -- 2.2.1 Tweets -- 2.2.2 Electoral Manifestos -- 2.2.3 Newspapers -- 2.3 Immigration as an Expected Topic -- 2.3.1 Political Context -- 2.3.2 Migration in the News -- 2.3.3 Migration in the Electoral Manifestos -- 2.4 Migration as a Silenced Topic in Twitter -- 2.4.1 Emigration -- 2.4.2 Immigrants -- 2.4.3 Borders and the Mediterranean -- 2.4.4 Syria -- 2.4.5 Humanitarian -- 2.4.6 Refugees -- 2.4.7 War -- 2.4.8 Terrorism -- 2.5 Aunque eso no dé votos -- References -- 3: Absence in Visual Narratives: The Story of Iran and Pakistan across Time -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Pakistan and Iran, Through the Eyes of the Global News Media: General Trends -- 3.3 Methodology -- 3.4 Interactive Metafunction: Iranian Women and the Absent Gaze -- 3.5 Absences: Representational Metafunction -- 3.5.1 Historical Context, and Key Strategies for Identifying Absences -- 3.5.2 Educational Reforms -- 3.5.3 Dissent: 'Valuable' and 'Non-Valuable' Dissidents -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References