Self-Silencing Strategies in Casual Conversations about Politics in Rural Poland

Self-silencing can be a discursive strategy for presenting personal opinions in casual conversations about politics, especially when these take place an unpredictable or hostile socio-political environment. In such situations, political identities may performed through the use of inferred forms, as allusion, irony implicit suggestion. this article, forms muting one’s voice by using indirect speech are tracked interviews conducted among villagers mountainous Nowy Targ county southern Poland at beginning 21st century. The aim examples is to show that sometimes selfsilencing serve make adversary’s more audible, help avoid definitive judgement and create space exchange opinions.