Sounds Like Silence

Subgroup Size

Entire group

Duration

1 hour

External Cost

No

Source

Stringer, D. M., & Cassiday, P. A. (2009). Sounds like silence. In 52 Activities for improving cross-cultural communication (pp. 131-134).  Intercultural Press. 

Tags:

  1. communication
  2. other awareness
  3. preparation for study abroad
  4. silence
  5. Stringer and Cassiday

For more on this topic, see the following:

Acheson, K. (2007). Silence in disupte. Annals of International Communication Association, 31(1),  2-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2007.11679064

Acheson, K. (2008). Silence as gesture: Rethinking the nature of communicative silences. Communication Theory, 18(4). 535-555. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2008.00333.x

Acheson, K. (2013). Fences, weapons, and gifts: Silences in the context of addiction. In S. Malhotra & A.C. Rowe (Eds.), Silence, feminism, power: Reflections at the edges of sound (pp. 188-199). Palgrave Macmillan.

Clair, R.P. (1997). Organizing silence: Silence as voice and voice as silence in the narrative exploration of the treaty of New Echota. Western Journal of Communication, 61(3), 315-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570319709374580

Clair, R.P. (1998). Organizing silence: A world of possibilities. State University of New York Press. 

Clair, R.P. (2013). Imposed Silence and the story of the Warramunga woman: Alternative interpretations and possibilities. In S. Malhotra & A.C. Rowe (Eds.), Silence, feminism, power: Reflections at the edges of sound (pp. 85-94). Palgrave Macmillan.