Course name: Period of Silence. Topic 2.

Course 2

Topic 2

Types of silence

Social types of silence or examples of silence

1. Danger: 


 In nature predators use silence to sneak up on prey.prey use silence to try to detect predators. This may help to explain why people are often uncomfortable with silence as it may invoke instincts related to danger.

2. Turn taking:


   In communication, silence is a commonly used to prompt a response from the other side. This can apply to both verbal communication and text based communication such as emails.

3. Signaling displeasure:


     Silence is often used to communicate negative emotion such as disappointment or anger. This may be extended for a long period of time as a form of admonishment. In English, this is know by the idiomatic expression"silent treatment."

4. Active silence:

    Active silence is the strategic use of silence in communication. For example, a long pause

designed to create tension in the midst of telling a story. Active silence is also used as a tool of debate and negotiation to prompt the other side into talking when it's not their advantage to do so.

5. Aesthetic silence:


    The use of silence in a creative work such as music or a film. This is analogous to the negative space of physical works. Silence can create crushingly tense emotions in a work.

6. Complicit silence:


     Failing to express information can create moral failings such as failing to voice opposition to something that is wrong where you are in some position to stop it.     

7. Spiral silence:

 A spiral of silence is groupthink that cause by complicit silence. For example, a university that establishes a policy that most board members view as wrong but are afraid to speak up for fear of being admonished or social isolated.

8. Right to silence:

 The right to refuse to answer questions to avoid self - incrimination

9. Awkward silence:

A tendency for an unintended pause in a conversation to feel socially awkward. Particularly, where you don't know somebody very well and you can't think of anything to say.

10. Comfortable silence.:

 The observation that people who have a close relationship no longer feel compelled to fill every moment together with sound.


       Sister Marie-Aimée of Jesus, a Carmelite from Paris, understood the role of interior silence that she divided into twelve degrees, in parallel with the twelve degrees of humility in the Rule of St. Benedict. Let us enumerate them and comment each one briefly :




1. Silence of the word .

2. Silence of movements or action 

3. Silence of the imagination 

4. Silence of the memory 

5. Silence to the creatures 

6. Silence of the heart or of feelings 

7. Silence of humility or self-love 

8. Silence of the gspirit or of intelligence 

9. Silence of judgment 

10. Silence of the will 

11. Silence with one's self 

12. Silence with God.

  In all this the Catholic divine project has summarised silence into three. Silence of the heart Silence of the muscle and silence of the lips.


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