Is silence a sound?
Ten principles towards an expressive theory of silence
Keywords:
silence, communication, expression, form, bioacoustics, psychoacousticsAbstract
This paper reviews the main theoretical and empirical models on which research into silence has been based, intending to locate and articulate the concepts considered to be orienting and practical to deploy a systemic and transdisciplinary review of silence as the object of research.
The study was carried out by confronting silence as an object of a phenomenological character triggered by the sense of hearing, whose expressive nature goes far beyond the sonic sensorial universe, and aims to obtain valid conclusions for any of the languages and expressive systems that incorporate it.
To locate and gather the contributions, the essential elements, and the theoretical gaps that may constitute the bases of an expressive theory of silence, the present study conducts a review of the knowledge on silence by grouping it into seven major research currents: philosophy and art, bioacoustics, psychoacoustics, theory of forms, musicology, semiotics, and pragmatic linguistics, while taking the communicative function as its backbone.
Lastly, the paper will propose ten principles for developing and empirical testing of an expressive theory of silence.
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