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This article argues that late Heidegger's analyses of the Fourfold can be used as a methodological starting point for discourse analyses. It argues that the Fourfold points out elements or foundations of discursive structures that orient us to differing, and to some extent opposing, directions that are at the same time mutually interdependent. A discursive analysis of how the Fourfold is at play in prevailing discursive exchanges and structures will thus be a matter of situating ourselves in a conceptual space beyond existing practices and structures, from which we get a picture of their inadequacies. As such, the article contributes to a critical understanding of discourse analysis. It will be argued that through understanding the Fourfold, we can better understand the problems with various aspects of 'measuring', which are founded upon the (concealed) instability of elements of the Fourfold – which shapes practical discursive engagements. By foregrounding this structural instability we can approach it critically. I demonstrate how this approach might be used in an analysis of a debate between Greta Thunberg and Bjørn Lomborg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that critical epistemology should aim at centering the voices and perspectives of those who have been excluded and silenced, proposing a way of doing that by combining Black feminist standpoint theory and Latina feminist theory as they converge in María del Rosario Acosta López’s philosophy of radical listening. The article also argues for the crucial significance of aesthetic interventions for creating epistemic friction that can transform our sensibilities so that we can start to listen to silences. The author offers an analysis of the subversive potential in Doris Salcedo’s public art as an illustration of how aesthetic resistance can be used in practices of epistemic activism that resist insensitivity and promote new ways of listening to silenced voices and liminal sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates why and when employees' observations of supervisors' ostracism of coworkers elicit their own feelings of guilt. In this connection, observers' silence might function as a mediator, and leader–member exchange quality could moderate the process. The tests of these predictions rely on two studies, undertaken in Pakistan: a temporally separated field study using three-wave data (N = 219) and a scenario-based experiment (N = 118). The combined results indicate that employees feel guilty for remaining silent when they witness supervisor ostracism of other colleagues. The positive relationship between such observations of supervisor ostracism and silence behavior is more pronounced among employees who enjoy high-quality relationships with their supervisor. In addition to establishing key theoretical insights, this article alerts organizations to a critical mechanism (silence to avoid upsetting supervisors) by which employees' observations of how supervisors ostracize others can escalate into their own sense of guilt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim Background Method Results Conclusion Implications for nursing and health policy This study aims to assess the relationship between workplace ostracism and the procrastination behavior of nurses, as well as examine the effect of organizational silence on this relationship.Controlling workplace ostracism and eradicating time wasters, especially procrastination behavior among nurses, are key strategies that add value to organizational effectiveness. In addition, remaining silent about significant issues facing nurses is a devastating approach to the success of both healthcare organizations and the nursing profession.A cross‐sectional descriptive correlational exploratory research design was used to conduct the study. Data were collected from 352 nurses recruited from three large university hospitals in Alexandria, Egypt. Four instruments, namely, the Workplace Ostracism Questionnaire, the Organizational Silence Scale, the Active Procrastination Scale, and the Unintentional Procrastination Scale, were used. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized relationships among the variables.The findings demonstrated a significant positive and moderate association between workplace ostracism and both active and passive procrastination behaviors among nurses. Moreover, there was a strong positive and significant correlation between organizational silence and workplace ostracism. The results of mediation revealed that the indirect effect of workplace ostracism on both active and passive procrastination behavior through organizational silence was statistically significant, suggesting that organizational silence partially mediated this relationship.The study highlighted the ongoing challenges posed by toxic workplace issues, such as organizational ostracism and silence, as significant factors contributing to nurses' procrastination behaviors. Not only do these factors directly impact nurses' productivity, but they also interact to exacerbate negative outcomes in nursing care. Addressing these toxic dynamics is critical to improving nurse performance and ensuring quality care in healthcare settings.This study offers new insights for navigating toxicity and upgrading nursing productivity in healthcare organizations through fostering a more inclusive and communicative work environment. Promoting team cohesion and ensuring that all staff members feel valued and included can reduce feelings of isolation that may lead to procrastination. Also, creating safe spaces for nurses to voice concerns without fear of reprisal could significantly diminish passive procrastination, which ultimately enhances overall patient care quality and organizational efficiency.  [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A significant percentage of the global workforce is now working remotely, thus prompting managers and organisations to adopt practices geared towards monitoring a remote workforce. Although remote monitoring practices provide managers with information regarding employee work progress and productivity, our understanding of how, why, and under what conditions such practices impact employees’ willingness to engage in voluntary extra-role behaviour intended to improve organisational functioning is limited. Drawing from the challenge-hindrance stress framework, our research provides insight into this issue. Specifically, we propose that the two types of remote monitoring (interactional and observational) will be appraised as stressful work demands that will differentially influence employees’ voice and silence. More precisely, we predict that interactional remote monitoring engenders voice because this form of monitoring tends to be appraised as a challenge, and that observational remote monitoring encourages silence because this form of monitoring tends to be appraised as a hindrance. Additionally, we argue that the complexity of one’s job will intensify the predicted indirect effects of interactional monitoring and observational monitoring paths on voice and silence, respectively. Results from two studies of remote workers largely support our predictions. We discuss implications to theory, research, and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While much ink has been spilt over the political importance of speech, much less has been dedicated to the political importance of silence. This article seeks to fill that gap. We propose the need for a robust, democratic right to silence in public life and argue that there are politically salient epistemic reasons for recognising that right. We begin by defining what silence is and what a robust right to silence entails. We then argue that the right to silence offers two politically salient epistemic benefits. The first is that, if the right to silence is maintained, we can avoid the epistemic harm that may be caused when an individual is compelled to lie in public. The second is that the right to silence can protect marginalised individuals against the epistemic injustices that may arise when others are likely to misconstrue their speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alcestis' silence following her rescue from the Underworld by Heracles in Euripides' Alcestis is a perennial source of speculation. This article argues that Alcestis' silence is symptomatic and symbolic of Heracles' reversal of the dual potential of her death, namely Alcestis' ability to orchestrate her presence in Admetus' house on her own terms, a situation made possible by her extraordinary self-sacrifice, and the wider benefit of ontological certainty, whereby Alcestis' death can render life and death discrete categories once more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an account of one woman's experience of the menopause. Affecting 51% of the global population, menopause has the potential to negatively impact home and work life. Yet, the arrival of menopause can often be a surprise due to a lack of education and awareness. Over 63% of UK working women claim menopause has negatively affected their careers, yet only 30% of employers support women to work through the menopause, and the cost to business and to women's health is significant. Shrouded in silence, the menopause is often misunderstood, and taboo exists. Therefore, women do not divulge, and many leave their jobs unsupported. Through Grace's story, this article explores how women's hormone health can affect work and by opening up conversations and raising awareness, as we have with mental health, it is possible to eradicate the silence behind the taboo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jihan, a former Kurdish guerilla fighter, struggles to gain medical treatment for the health problems she suffers as a result of war and trauma. The provision of care in Turkey has been motivated by ethno-political security concerns. Therefore, medical encounters are characterized by silences, not-knowing and of averting danger. Based on theories of ignorance, I explore how experiences of war and torture constitute dangerous knowledge that are difficult to share in a context, without a guaranteed therapeutic safe space. Patient and doctor navigate mistrust, silences and proxy-reasons in an attempt to deal with the traumata and violent experiences left unsaid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the interplay between silence and speech in William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure", particularly through the character of Isabella. Topics include Isabella's rhetorical skills and confrontations with patriarchal structures; the significance of her silence at the play's end; and the implications of computational text analysis for understanding female characters' voices and the dynamics of power and absence in Shakespeare's works.

Persistent deficits in the ability to initiate social interaction is a core criterion for a diagnosis of autism, and quantitative research shows that children with autism initiate fewer bids for interaction than neurotypical children. This conversation-analytic examination of two interactions between a man with autism, Harry, and two familiar carers will provide insights into the scope of his competences in topic initiation. Analyses of the participants' online management of turn-taking and sequence organisation demonstrate that Harry's topic initiations can be facilitated by a high silence tolerance of the interlocutor in initiation-relevant sequential environments. Specifically, Harry initiates more topics, when his conversational partner endures the long silences after possible sequence closure. The analyses underline that Harry does not lack neither competences nor motivation to successfully execute initiations. Instead, it is proposed that Harry's deficits in initiation should be reconceptualised as a difficulty of initiating interaction on neurotypical terms, where the standard maximum silence between turns is approximately one second. Hereby, the study emphasises that communicative competences of individuals with autism are interactionally managed, emerging in interaction with conversational partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In most second-language classrooms, students are expected and encouraged to spend a significant amount of classroom time speaking. However, students’ passivity in learning is not only a root of silence, but teachers’ classroom styles are also viewed as a major cause of learner silence. This leads to the necessary need for teachers to have a good understanding of silence as a pedagogy that can motivate silent or reticent students to be active and to speak more. This implies that teacher plays an important role in motivating the silent students’ learning by keeping silent students from feelings of being shy, ignorant or rebellious. For these reasons, this paper is going to review some viewpoints on silence and propose a task of using silence in reading class which the teachers of English can apply in their reading class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hiding from war, violence, and persecution in a secret, confined place affects the subjectivity of the occupants. The hideout's material properties and the hiders' silence to avoid detection enter deep into their lives. This co-constitution of subjectivity and hiding becomes manifest in their affects, feelings, and emotions, as will be illustrated by an analysis of Anne Frank's lived experience of hiding for two years from Nazi persecution. She and her fellow hiders maintained a regime of silence in the secret annex of a canal house in Amsterdam to prevent their discovery and deportation. The hideout's material and social restrictions created a subjectivity of hiding that devalued Anne Frank's existence as a human being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unsilencing sexism‐related silence is not a new need, particularly in academic institutions heavily imbued with patriarchy, where sexist events are often ignored or denigrated. In this paper, we draw on a sexist cyberbullying attack unleashed against part of our academic work to extend a critique to the silence culture surrounding business school sexism. Through an embodied discussion of the various faces and phases of silence, silencing, and unsilencing that we experienced following this sexist event, we show the behind‐the‐scenes relational process that led us from silence to activism in regaining our voices and speaking out against academic sexism. We discuss the emancipating potential of feminist "wor(l)ds," relationality, and communal support in unsilencing sexism‐related silence and articulate possible ways of unsilencing silence at the individual, community, and institutional levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws from our own experiences of sexism within Business Schools to bring attention to the effects of the operation of a highly masculinized, white, cis‐gendered, and patriarchal culture, whether enacted by men or women, and to how we come to be silenced within it. Our work reflects on intersectional issues of race, health (mental and physical), and care‐work, using faction built from six paired interviews to tell a truth we feel unable to tell individually. This piece highlights the real fear of repercussions that still persist for female academics, and uses the acts of collecting data and writing differently to offer the authors a safe space in which to resist both overt and structural sexism in Business Schools. It highlights the need to take seriously those subtleties of sexism that we are often expected to put up with, those difficult‐to‐name aspects of our working lives that leave us feeling it would be "silly" to complain and act as a form of micro‐coercive control over our lives. We operationalize our collective voice as a form of activism in the academy that is situated within our individual silences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A common aim of global citizenship education (hereafter GCE) is to enable students to focus on shared contemporary matters of significant global concern. Despite such an important aim, we argue that the dominant assumption of the global citizen as White, Western and liberal (perceived as universal) within global citizenship education produces harmful silences and erasures which marginalise the Other. This article is presented in four sections. We begin by articulating some of the silences and erasures that are enacted by curricula and policy practices of GCE by adopting a social cartography (Paulston, 2009) as a heuristic to map various orientations to global citizenship education. In doing so, we highlight its inherent silences, tensions and contradictions. A second section addresses some of the key sites in which mainstream approaches to GCE enact silences and absences by their sole focus on soft, rather than critical, approaches to global citizenship education (Andreotti, 2006), where the liberal subject is regarded as the global citizen with a consequent muting of the experience of the Other. In the third section, we draw on Wynter's work on the historicisation of what it means to be human. Wynter's concept of 'Man' (2003), as a genre of being human (White, Western and Imperial), enables us to excavate violence regarding other modes of being human within global citizenship curricula practices and discourses. A final section unpacks some of the ways in which we, as three teacher educators, respond to these silences and erasures in global citizenship curricula practices and policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the significance of silence in modern workplaces, particularly in relation to introverted employees who often face misconceptions and undervaluation in their roles. It emphasizes the need for organizations to create environments that nurture quietness, allowing introverted employees to thrive by recognizing their contributions and providing them with opportunities to succeed.

While nonspeech communication and "metaphorical" silence (in opposition to voice) have benefited from a considerable academic attention, less is known about quiet environments and the intentional practice of silence. We theorize these silences as potential catalysts of internal and collective reflection. Such silences can strongly impact individual and organizational processes and outcomes, notably in the workplace. The meaning, valence, and effects of these silences are highly context- and perspective-dependent. By characterizing and studying these silences and their effects, we show how they are functional or dysfunctional to individuals or organizations. These silences can notably serve as emotion regulators and generate an environment favorable to individual and collective decision making. Examining what is lost by individuals and organizations due to a lack of these silence and what can be gained with a better harnessing of their power is promising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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What is the pedagogical place of silence in the Anthropocene classroom? Should we as teachers—particularly as teachers involved in the education of aesthetic sensibilities—understand our classrooms as sites in which awareness of our Anthropocene predicament is spread, sites in which a general sense of the urgency of our times is disseminated? And is this awareness not best spread via explicit facts and data, the key story of climate change and biodiversity loss, with these themes serving as the background against which we interpret the symbolic abstractions of aesthetic objects? This article follows Ursula Le Guin's example to a conclusion that perhaps differs from the consensus. Our overall argument is that cultivating a certain sort of silence relative to the Anthropocene can be profoundly educational for our students, if—of course—that silent teaching is done artfully. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Las representaciones de la desaparición y la (in)visibilidad juegan un papel clave a lo largo de la obra de Antonio Méndez Rubio (Fuente del Arco, Badajoz, España, 1967). Este estudio combina un enfoque temático y formal en las huellas y el silencio en una selección de poemas que abarca poemarios como Un lugar que no existe (1998), Por más señas (2005), Razón de más (2008) y Va verdad (2013). Más allá de arrojar luz sobre lo ocult(ad)o o tratar de revelar historias y memorias colectivas traumáticas ocultadas, muchos de los poemas de Méndez Rubio que aluden a huellas las presentan como agentes activos que no revelan objetos ocultos. El compromiso en esta poesía se basa en una visión del texto poético como objeto y espacio visual y una visión expandida de la relación compleja entre lo visible y lo invisible que engloba también la presencia y ausencia de elementos acústicos.

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that puerarin can inhibit the differentiation of osteoclasts, and the expression of Notch signaling pathway-related proteins such as Notch1, HES1, and Jagged1 is decreased. However, the specific mechanism of the Notch1 signaling pathway for the inhibition of osteoclast differentiation by puerarin is not clear. OBJECTIVE: To explore the effect of Notch signaling pathway on puerarin inhibiting the differentiation of mouse macrophage Raw264.7 into osteoclasts. METHODS: Raw264.7 cells were divided into seven groups for intervention culture. Blank control group was cultured in high-sugar DMEM medium; the osteoclast induction group was cultured in osteoclast induction medium; the puerarin intervention group was cultured with 50 μmol/L puerarin at the same time of osteoclast induction; Notch1 siRNA control group, Notch1 siRNA group, Notch1 overexpression control group and Notch1 overexpression group were transfected with Notch1 siRNA control sequence, Notch1 siRNA, Notch1 overexpression control plasmid and Notch1 overexpression plasmid, respectively, and then cultured with osteoclast induction medium and puerarin. The number and size of osteoclasts were observed by tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase staining, the skeleton formation of osteoclasts was observed by F-actin staining, and the gene expression level of osteoclast formation markers was detected by RT-PCR. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase staining results showed that puerarin intervention could inhibit the generation of osteoclasts, Notch1 silencing could further reduce the number of osteoclasts, while the number of osteoclasts in the osteoclast-induced group increased significantly after Notch1 overexpression. The results of F-actin showed that Raw264.7 cells could form a well-defined F-actin ring after osteoclast induction. Puerarin intervention would inhibit the formation of cytoskeleton, and Notch1 silencing could aggravate the inhibitory effect of cytoskeleton formation, while Notch1 overexpression could alleviate this inhibitory effect of puerarin. RT-PCR results showed that puerarin could inhibit the mRNA expression levels of tartrateresistant acid phosphatase, Cathepsin K and c-Fos, the expression of the above-mentioned three factors decreased significantly after Notch1 gene silencing, and Notch1 overexpression could upregulate the expression of these factors. These finding indicate that puerarin inhibits the differentiation of Raw264.7 cells into osteoclasts through the Notch signaling pathway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Silence of Beyng and the Fullness of Nothingness. On the Experience of the Salvific in Martin Heidegger’s Thought - - - In various contexts of his work, Heidegger speaks of the wholesome and of the disaster, of the holy, of salvation, of need and of needlessness. The starting point for the following reflections is Heidegger’s short essay “Der Feldweg [Country Path],” where he speaks of the “silent power of the field path,” its power of “serenity.” But what is this “power” based on? In the third of his Feldweg-Gespräche [Country Path Conversations], Heidegger talks about the salutary in a dialogical way that invites into a conversation. The experience of silence mentioned there must be reflected upon, and thus the question of whether the experience of silence can be healing should be addressed: such a reconsideration of Heidegger leads the interpretation back to the fundamental ontological analysis of fallenness and, from there, gains access to “the need of needlessness” and the question of what is salutary.

Research into intimate details of human life can be challenging for the parties involved. This article is a case study of a research situation in which I, as an interviewer, failed to elicit information from a male Vietnamese interviewee who evaded discussing specific details of his romantic life. I argue that this situation—the man’s avoidance of sharing details of his feelings toward people of the same sex and my discomfort in facing his avoidance—reveals a culture of silence regarding same-sex experiences in Vietnam. The study utilizes autoethnographic anecdotes of my experience of growing up in such a culture and observing similar evasive attitudes. It also adopts a reflexive approach that delves into segments of my second research encounter with the interviewee as well as my internal struggles, including feelings of anxiety and guilt about probing into an informant’s romantic life. It seeks to enrich Lisa A. Mazzei’s concept of “veiled silence,” which describes the deliberate non-engagement with taboo topics by linking it with the idea of a “culture of silence,” or a disempowering social environment, and discussing these concepts in the context of Vietnam. It also contributes to the literature on LGBTQ+ matters in Vietnam and qualitative research methods by recommending greater attention to silence in research encounters, which can offer unexpected insights for studies into sensitive issues.

The article is devoted to Christian meditation, founded by Benedictine monk John Main in the twentieth century. The paper examines the Christian roots of this practice. John Main and his follower Benedictine monk Laurence Freeman refer to the works of St. John Cassian the Roman, Catholic Saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, as well as the work of an unknown author “The Cloud of Unknowing“, which determined the choice of these works for the publication. On the other hand, the author of Christian meditation points to the experience of communicating with a Hindu teacher. All this is reflected in the description of this practice, which contains both elements of Christian teaching and terms and ideas from other non-Christian teachings. The article deals with similar elements, for example cutting off thoughts that arise both during prayer and meditation. The place of meditation in the spiritual life of a person is considered. Special attention is paid to the concept of “mind of Christ”, as it is used by Laurence Freeman for a theological explanation of the essence of Christian meditation. In addition, the idea of representing the Holy Spirit as love between Father and Son is used to explain the essence of the practice. A separate place is given in the work to such concepts as “Ego” and “true Self ”, which are also used in psychoanalysis. The article shows that a number of theological ideas are indeed reflected in Christian literature, but at the same time, non-Christian thoughts can often be seen in the description of Christian meditation by John Main and his followers. It all leads to the idea of syncretism of theological views in the description of this practice.

AbstractThe purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of self-censorship of human resources on organizational silence by explaining the mediating role of conscious silence of human resources. This research is based on practical purpose and in terms of method is descriptive survey. The statistical population of the research is 355 employees of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari governorates, considering that the size of the statistical population is limited and specific, from Morgan table at the 95% confidence level was determined 260 people and it was selected by available sampling method. To collect information, researcher-made questionnaires of organizational silence, organizational self-censorship, and conscious silence were used, whose validity and reliability were confirmed by content validity and Cronbach's alpha, and a survey of experts and consultants. Structural equation modeling method and SPSS, PLS software were used to test hypotheses and analyze data. The research findings showed that the self-censorship human resources has a positive and significant effect on organizational silence. Also, self-censorship of human resources has a positive and significant effect on mum effect. As a result, it can be said that managers of government organizations, being aware of the issue of organizational silence and the factors affecting it, must take measures to identify its irreparable messages and effects.Introduction In a situation where modern organizations seek and share information and knowledge management, neglecting organizational silence will become a problem. Considering the importance and necessity of understanding the phenomenon of organizational silence and taking into account the influence of various factors on organizational silence, the present research seeks to express its role in creating organizational silence while studying and investigating organizational self-censorship. Regarding the role of the two variables of self-censorship and mum effect of human resources in the direction of helping organizations, no significant efforts have been made yet, therefore, considering the gap in academic research, this research seeks to answer the question of what is the self-censorship of human resources with regard to mum effect. It will have an impact on organizational silence, and finally, taking into account the role and position of the governorate, which is one of the vital organizations of the country, a simple model will be presented in this regard, so that managers of government organizations, with sufficient knowledge of organizational silence and the factors affecting it, can think of measures. to prevent its irreparable consequences and effects such as reducing citizen satisfaction, reducing organizational performance, inflexibility in front of organizational issues, etc.Case study Considering the role and position of the governorate, which is one of the vital organizations of the country, the statistical population of the research is the employees of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari governorates. Due to the specific and limited size of the statistical population, the sample size was determined and selected as 260 people using available sampling method.Materials and Methods The current research is a part of applied research in terms of its purpose and descriptive survey in terms of data collection method. This research is among quantitative researches and the size of the statistical population of the research was determined and selected from Chrissy Morgan's table formula to calculate the sample size of 260 people. To collect information, a researcher-made questionnaire containing 30 questions was used. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were assessed through Cronbach's alpha and confirmatory factor analysis and three types of validity including convergent, divergent and content validity were used . To test the research hypotheses, the structural equation modeling method in Smart Pls3 software has been used .Discussion and Results Self-censorship is defined as follows: failure to express one's true opinion in front of audiences who are against that opinion. Types of self-censorship include self-censorship of actions, information and opinions. Organizational silence is a conscious action that employees choose not to share their beliefs, thoughts, information, ideas and experiences related to their work with others, and its types are: obedient or satisfactory or useless, defensive or silent and altruistic, opportunistic silence. , protective and unobtrusive. Mum effect is also a situation where one or more people together decide to hide information. Even though knowingly doing such a thing is unethical. Mum effect in the organization can be addressed from three aspects: the communicator's concern about himself, the communicator's concern about others, and the communicator's concern about legal norms and principles. Based on the above variables and their dimensions, the structural equation model was presented and the hypotheses of the research were proved.In this research, four hypotheses were presented and the results confirmed the hypotheses proposed in this research.1) Self-censorship has a positive and significant effect on employees' organizational silence. 2) Organizational self-censorship has a positive and significant effect on employees' mum effect. 3) Mum effect has a positive and significant effect on the organizational silence of employees. 4) Mum effect plays a mediating role in the organizational self-censorship on organizational silence.ConclusionFinally, the results of this study shows that the self-censorship of human resources has effect on mum effect and organizational silence. Quantitative method was used in this article, it is suggested to use mixed or qualitative methods in future researches and to study the antecedent and consequent factors of organizational silence, mum effect and self-censorship. Suggest that managers of government organizations aware of the issue of these 3 variables and provide strategies and solutions to eliminate them.

Noise is often conceived of as the opposite of silence. Yet, in the right context, certain kinds of noise can contribute to the perception or interpretation of silence and quietness. Descriptions of this occurrence can be found in music recording discourse. Here, in certain contexts, noises generated by audio equipment, such as hiss, can sometimes be heard to signify silence. This, in turn, can elicit feelings of musical intimacy, which opposes conventional understandings of noise as creating a sense of distance between recorded music and its listeners. This article examines how noise might signify silence and elicit musical intimacy in the context of music recordings. We discuss conceptions of noise and silence before considering how understandings of noise in music recordings have been shaped by events in the history of record production. As a case study, we then turn to Mark Hollis’s eponymous solo album, with its persistent background noise. We analyse the album and surrounding discourse from hermeneutic and semiotic perspectives to investigate how noise can be understood both as silent and musically intimate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(1) Background: Currently, numerous qualitative research studies on food and its influence on health are being conducted. In qualitative research, data are obtained by analyzing participants' responses. However, silence during conversation has been little studied. The aim of this study was to interpret the silences in the narratives of elderly people living alone about the potential risks of not keeping a healthy diet. (2) Methods: This is a descriptive and interpretative observational study under the qualitative research paradigm following a phenomenological and ethnographic perspective. The study was developed in two phases with people over 65 years old. In the first phase, from June 2021 to January 2022, 90 interviews, 12 life history analyses, 58 food diaries and 51 free listings (cultural domain technique) were conducted. In the second phase, from March to June 2022, 3 participatory workshops and 24 pile sorts (cultural domain technique) were conducted, as well as 3 focus groups. Only data from participants over 65 years old living alone are analyzed in this paper. The ATLAS-ti (Version 22) qualitative analysis software was used for coding and data analysis. (3) Results: The results show that elderly people living alone would sometimes remain silent during the various conversations conducted within the research. This silence reflects their desire to downplay the risks to their health from not eating well due to their unwanted loneliness. The people participating in our research had chronic health problems, financial insecurity and emotional problems. (4) Conclusions: We concluded that elderly people living alone are unable to maintain a healthy diet because they downplay their risk of malnutrition. This mindset is caused by their loneliness and bolstered by a situation of learned helplessness and social injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SilenceTop is an interactive microarchitecture that reinterprets the traditional Korean soban table. This project aims to create a new form of interaction through silence by emphasizing nonlinguistic cues for interaction. SilenceTop challenges established notions of solitude and awkward conversational gaps while reshaping the domestic landscape. By harmonizing architectural and furniture dimensions, SilenceTop fosters interactivity among objects, spaces, and humans. The design offers easy assembly, adapting seamlessly to domestic settings with diverse spatial functions. Each seating side is positioned 75 cm apart, striking a balance for interaction in relationships both intimate and formal. The project focuses on silence, redefines object-space-human interactivity, and enriches the experience of person-environment engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to investigate how workplace bullying mediates between workplace conflict and employee silence (acquiescent, quiescent, and pro-social silence). Data was collected from 430 employees of service-sector companies (IT and ITES). Structural equation modeling using bootstrap technique was applied for data analysis. The findings of this study confirm that workplace bullying partially mediates the relationship between workplace conflict and the three types of employee silence. The implications of this research work are beneficial for organizations in order to fathom the silence behavior of employees that arises due to conflict and bullying at workplace. Management should discourage any signs of conflict, curb bullying, and at the same time encourage the employees to raise their voices against their problems in a formal way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the discursive strategies of the Turkish Jewish community of Çanakkale to make sense of their troubled memories resulting in a mass emigration. Considering the emphasis on silence in the present literature on the memory practices of the Jewish community, I argue that they do not simply avoid facing the past but rather refer to nostalgia as a complementary, proactive strategy. My analysis is based on the memoirs and impressions of the individual members who took part in the annual visit to Çanakkale to highlight the role of nostalgia between silence and speaking out. The critical discourse analysis of the narratives published in the newsweekly Şalom reveals that nostalgia emerges as a silence-breaker. In addition to the constructive strategy of presenting the discourses of coexistence and good-neighborhood embodied in a distinctive local identity, they propose a strategy of dismantling the figures that challenge the former by de-ethnicizing them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Research into intimate details of human life can be challenging for the parties involved. This article is a case study of a research situation in which I, as an interviewer, failed to elicit information from a male Vietnamese interviewee who evaded discussing specific details of his romantic life. I argue that this situation-the man’s avoidance of sharing details of his feelings toward people of the same sex and my discomfort in facing his avoidance-reveals a culture of silence regarding same-sex experiences in Vietnam. The study utilizes autoethnographic anecdotes of my experience of growing up in such a culture and observing similar evasive attitudes. It also adopts a reflexive approach that delves into segments of my second research encounter with the interviewee as well as my internal struggles, including feelings of anxiety and guilt about probing into an informant’s romantic life. It seeks to enrich Lisa A. Mazzei’s concept of “veiled silence,” which describes the deliberate non-engagement with taboo topics by linking it with the idea of a “culture of silence,” or a disempowering social environment, and discussing these concepts in the context of Vietnam. It also contributes to the literature on LGBTQ+ matters in Vietnam and qualitative research methods by recommending greater attention to silence in research encounters, which can offer unexpected insights for studies into sensitive issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper adds a novel perspective to employee voice literature by thematically analysing 36 in-depth interviews of surgeons and anaesthesiologists, who work together but in the context of a blurred hierarchy. We found that these two professions effectively leveraged expertise in speaking up on safety concerns relating to their own speciality, when speaking to each other, irrespective of hierarchy. Further, as interdependent roles make cross speciality voice vital for patient safety, they also spoke up on occasions to negotiate risk and safety concerns across speciality. However, power struggles and protection of speciality authority predisposed each professional group to undervaluing the contribution of the other and often attributing self-interest and opportunistic motives to those speaking up. This led to each group resisting influence making silence a commonplace on cross speciality safety concerns. These contexts present an intriguing environment for voice behaviour which requires research and management attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews three books and uses these as motivation to consider the changing conditions for the discourse communities which define musicology and its companion disciplines. More specifically, the books inspire a re-evaluation of the contemporary conditions of musical experience, activity, and research in a digitally oriented sound–word publishing world. The article notes a growing body of disciplinary literature that interacts with, or presumes, the presence of a particular readership that not only reads, but actively listens, while reading. It encourages a more aurally directed way of writing and suggests that musicology and its companion disciplines should continue to explore more coherent ways to link words to music. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Reflecting on the author's role in establishing, cataloging, and interpreting the personal papers of Zygmunt Bauman, this article ponders central questions related to working on and with the archives of public intellectuals. It addresses the role that intellectuals, and Bauman in particular, hold in contemporary "memory wars" and the role that diverse forms and practices of archives play therein. It considers the difficulties posed by and possibilities afforded by the existence of archives, as well as biographical and autobiographical writings, for the interpretation of theoretical work. To this end, the article deploys a number of keywords—estrangement, loss, silence, secrets—that have framed the author's encounter with the Bauman archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Chile, social policies are founded on the notion of women as primary caregivers burdened with the main responsibility for others. These policies conceptualise women as deficient, requiring their parenting to be monitored. Drawing from our ethnographic studies of specific instances of encounters with the state, this article examines how low-income mothers navigate, experience and are subjected to silence and silencing. Silences are at the basis of their relationship with a state that provides minimal, almost imperceptible care, compelling these women to manage their silence to obtain even the slightest assistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines how Louise Glück's poetry explores the theme of emotional distance through metaphors traditionally associated with religious estrangement. It also discusses her use of distance to address personal and familial conflicts, her ambivalence towards life and love, and her reflections on mortality and silence.

Journalists depend on two vectors of trust: the trust invested in them by their sources, and the trust invested in them by their end-users. For many years, trust has become a key issue in the articulation of the journalistic profession. This paper distinguishes between two traditional approaches to earn public trust: either through an emphasis on the ideal of objectivity, or by a sort of showing one's cards: an explicit declaration of one's subjectivity. Through a reading of Løgstrup, Derrida, and Deleuze, we argue that both positions are inadequate solutions to the problem of trust. In as much as subjectivity is continuously negotiated in interaction with the unknown and the uncontrollable, the poles of objectivity and subjectivity cannot define the narrative event without each supplementing the other. To escape from this impasse, we suggest a third approach: a hospitable journalism characterized by a hospitable attitude towards the uncontrollable and the strange, or unknown, which operates to make the individual more aware of herself and her place in the world. This invitation happens through a silencing of the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I am a child of a person with haemophilia, I am a nurse, I am a researcher. I am a lucky one. The Contaminated (or Tainted) Blood Scandal was a worldwide event that infected many people, including People with Haemophilia (PwH), with blood-borne diseases. With the recent inquiry, more is revealed about decision making and events, allowing families like mine to see the truth for the first time. This essay explores the published literature, both by academics and by people from the haemophilia community, alongside exo-autoethnographic and autoethnographic elements. It will include my journey as I traveled the path from considering the trauma inherited alone, to discovering my own place in the story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Résumé: Au cours des soixante-quinze dernières années, plusieurs traités internationaux ont été adoptés dans le but de promouvoir les droits universels des êtres humains, dont le principe d'égalité homme-femme. Pourtant, de nombreuses violations des droits de l'homme commises contre les femmes en raison de leur sexe perdurent à l'échelle internationale. L'objet de cet article est de répondre à la question suivante: Y a-t-il une marginalisation des femmes et des problématiques qui leur sont propres en droit international ? Notre article examine cette question par l'exploration de la présence ou de l'absence de la « femme » en droit international, partant à la « recherche » de cette dernière. Dans un premier temps, nous étudions le silence concernant les femmes dans l'espace temporel sémiotique juridique qu'est le traité et la transmutation du langage français-anglais dans les dispositions pertinentes de la Charte internationale des droits de l'homme. Dans un deuxième temps, nous analysons la marginalisation de problématiques propres aux femmes dans la Charte internationale des droits de l'homme et la Convention sur l'élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l'égard des femmes (CEDAW). Nous procédons à une analyse sémiotique des traités internationaux dans le cadre de la théorie de la « signifique » développée par l'éminente sémioticienne Victoria Welby, notamment sa « Triade de Signification », que nous transposons dans le domaine juridique. En dernier lieu, nous proposons des réformes par la déconstruction du paradigme actuel des « droits de l'homme de la femme » à l'échelle internationale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Sexual harassment is a significant problem in workplaces all over the world. Women’s reactions to sexual harassment are influenced by various factors. The aim of the current study was to investigate how women respond sexual harassment in the retail clothing industry. Methods: In-depth face-to-face interviews were conducted with 16 women aged 23–44 years (mean 29.18 years) employed for at least 3 years in clothes shops in Shiraz, Iran. A grounded theory approach was used to analysis the data and raise hypotheses. Results: The main perpetrators of sexual harassment for female saleswomen were male customers. The women experienced conflict-induced stimulation (core phenomenon) when they were faced with sexual harassing behaviors (causal conditions). Such stimulation prompted three types of coping strategies: silence, avoidance, or confrontation. Intervening factors like the characteristics of the Iranian society (including family mores, state-imposed hijab regulations, patriarchal culture, educational system, and regulatory monitoring) and contextual factors (including individual and environmental factors and particularly employer expectations) were found to influence the selection of strategies used as well as their potential consequences in challenging situations. Conclusion: The current study used a grounded theory approach to produce an explanatory storyline that can be tested. Sexual harassment induces conflict-induced stimulation and responses are influenced by intervening conditions, contextual factors, selected strategies, and the perceived consequences of the response. The findings of the grounded theory study suggest that there are negative consequences, particularly in terms of lack of employer support and losing one’s job, shame, and family disapproval which act as barriers for female saleswomen to counteracting sexual harassment from male customers. Such an understanding can also be applied to develop educational policies to support women as well as ameliorate the prevalence of this essentially illegal problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]