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- ISSN: 2382-6282 (Print); 2972-3108 (Online)
- Abbreviated Title: Int. J. Lang. Lit. Linguist.
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- DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL
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IJLLL 2019 Vol.5(3): 186-191 ISSN: 2382-6282
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2019.5.3.224
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2019.5.3.224
Eloquent Silence: A Study of Communicative Instances in Arundhati Roy‘s The God of Small Things
Madhura Sen
Abstract—Silence is one of the distinguishing features of
human speech and has been an interesting object of study across
disciplines. Early structural linguistics focused on isolated
instances of language devoid of contextual information where
silence did not feature at all. Conversation Analysts focused on
silence but failed to accommodate meaning into it. With the
‘linguistic turn’ in the early Twentieth century, the discipline of
Philosophy addressed silence in more ways than one. In this
paper instances of absence of verbal language which consciously
include both ‘silence’ and ‘gestures’ in Arundhati Roy’s The
God of Small Things have been studied closely. This paper aims
to argue that ‘silence’, though apparently devoid of a form,
functions as successful communicative instances emerging as
eloquent and revealing different forms of function depending on
the situation and relationship between interlocutors.
Index Terms—Communication, eloquent silence, gestures, silence.
Madhura Sen is with University of Calcutta, India (e-mail: senmadhura@gmail.com).
Index Terms—Communication, eloquent silence, gestures, silence.
Madhura Sen is with University of Calcutta, India (e-mail: senmadhura@gmail.com).
Cite: Madhura Sen, "Eloquent Silence: A Study of Communicative Instances in Arundhati Roy‘s The God of Small Things," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 186-191, 2019.