The silence of Language

Authors

  • Gérard Dessons Universidade Paris 8

Keywords:

silence, language, literature

Abstract

We propose here to consider the silence as a fully category of language, contrary to the preconceived idea that it is a negative reality (an absence of words). Unlike other approaches that do not reject the silence outside language (the classical moralism, rhetoric, pragmatic linguistics), we present a poetic approach to the problem, defining the silence as something we do not know how to listen in language, but that literature allows it to manifest.

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Original in French

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Author Biography

Gérard Dessons, Universidade Paris 8

Professor de literatura francesa na Universidade Paris 8, onde desenvolve pesquisas sobre a literatura dos séculos XIX e XX, poética e teoria da arte. Publicou Maeterlinck, le théâtre du poeme, Paris, Laurence Teper éditions, 2005; L’Art et la manière, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2004; Introduction à la poétique, Approche des théories de la littérature, Paris: Nathan, 1995 ; Émile Benveniste, Paris, Bertrand-Lacoste, 1993; Introduction à l'analyse du poème, Nathan, 1991 (2e édition: 1996), além de diversos artigos em revistas especializadas.

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Published

2005-07-19

How to Cite

Dessons, G. (2005). The silence of Language. Gragoatá, 10(18). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33275

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 18 (2005): Senses, effects and resistance

Section

Language Articles

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