The value of silence in speech communication

Abstract

Linguistic cognition as a relatively new area of modern linguistics began to study the cognitive properties of linguistic and nonlinguistic units. Based on the commonality of the national language and national thinking, consideration of the cognitive, expressive, accumulative aspects of each linguistic phenomenon is considered one of the main tasks of this direction. After all, it is important to analyze each language in the aggregate of such factors as the social environment, national mentality, national etiquette, as well as the speech and culture of the speaker of this language. This article analyzes the issue of approaching the phenomenon of silence, which is a component of discourse, as a unit of action of internal and external speech in the process of verbal communication.

Keywords

• anthropocentric paradigm
• speech communication
• inner speech
• external speech
• non-verbal means
• silence in speech communication