Silence as the ethic basis of communication

The Ethical Turn: Communication as a Manifestation of the Ethic

This paper calls for an ethical turn in communication. It offers a re-evaluation of Weaver’s metaphor on communication as exchanges of information and develops Buber’s and Peters’ ideas on communication as manifestation of the ethical, where the ethical is described as openness to otherness and communication is viewed as a tension between reproduction of Self and reconciliation with alterity. I...

Silence as communication in psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Moments of silence in the therapy hour, on the part of the client or therapist, can communicate important psychodynamic information, as well as deeply facilitate the therapeutic encounter. The client may be communicating emotional and relational messages of need and meaning. The therapist can use silence to communicate safety, understanding and containment. However, if this intervention is not ...

focus on communication in iranian high school language classes: a study of the role of teaching materials in changing the focus onto communication in language classes

چکیده ارتباط در کلاس به عوامل زیادی از جمله معلمان، دانش آموزان، برنامه های درسی و از همه مهم تر، مواد آموزشی وابسته است. در تدریس ارتباطی زبان که تاکید زیادی بر توانش ارتباطی دارد، کتاب درسی به عنوان عامل موثر بر پویایی کلاس محسوب میگردد که درس ها را از طریق فراهم آوردن متن ارتباط کلاسی و هم چنین نوع تمرین زبانی که دانش آموزان در طول فعالیت های کلاسی به آن مشغول اند، کنترل می کند. این حقیقت ک...

Silence as the Ultimate Fulfillment of the Philosophical Quest

Silence detection for multimedia communication

Silence detection and removal is an essential building block of any multimedia video conferenc-ing system. It reduces the bandwidth requirements of the underlying network transport service and helps to maintain an acceptable end-to-end delay for audio. We analyze the requirements for a silence detection algorithm hosted on a multimedia communication system, and propose a novel low complexity al...