About silence

“Silence is a response to the encounter between a complicated inside and an uncomprehending outside” Collete A. Granger

 “An act of saying consists of two basic components: the said and the unsaid” (TYLER cited by JAWORKSI, 1993, p.44)

 “Silence is not a mere background to speech and (…) it is not a negative category devoid of communicative properties” (JAWORSKI, 1993, p. 48).