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In our talkative Western culture, speech is synonymous with authority and influence while silence is frequently misheard

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Unspoken : a rhetoric of silence
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Around the world in the twentieth century, political violence in emerging states gave rise to different kinds of silence

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A single theme runs through the three essays on St. Thomas gather in this book. It is the theme of mystery or, more exac

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How do we know that what we remember is the truth? Inspired by the story of her relative Marion Stokes, one of three wom

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Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has com

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From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with

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An investigative reporter relates the story of an Israeli attack on an American spy ship during the Arab-Israeli Six-Day

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Migiel challenges readers to pay attention to Boccaccio's language and ultimately, Migiel contends, the stories of

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