Abstract

CORTES COSS, Dina Elizabeth  and  RODRIGUEZ ALFANO, Lidia. The use of silence as a discursive strategy and indicator of domestic and physical violence in women residing in the metropolitan area of Nuevo León. Estudios del Desarrollo Social [online]. 2018, vol.6, n.3 ISSN 2308-0132.

Silence is not considered to be a lack of communication, quite the opposite, it is a means of expression effectively used when words are not enough. To interpret a silence, what was not said, is closely related to sociocultural pre-constructs on the basis of which situational context of any issuer´s discourse can be interpreted.

The preliminary results of discourse analysis -focused specially on defining motivations which underlie the use of silence- show that, very often, this form of nonverbal communication is employed by women after they have been victimized by their partners.

Keywords : domestic violence; physical violence; women; Nuevo Leon.

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