This study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at Iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. Since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...

the effect of silence in civil litigation is important in two cases: the silence of litigants (plaintiff and defendant) and silence in evidence of proof of claim. although the general rule is that silence cannot express the will and, therefore, is not entitled to the legal effects and any responsibility, but the silence of plaintiff and defendant has been deemed refusal and it has legal effect....

The dynamics of silence and remembrance in Australian writer Lily Brett’s autobiographic fiction Things Could Be Worse reflects the crisis of memory and understanding experienced by both first and second-generation Holocaust survivors within the diasporic space of contemporary Australia. It leads to issues of handling traumatic and transgenerational memory, the latter also known as postmemory (...

Traumatic experiences often leave one suppressed and spiritually weak due to marginalization voicelessness. This article aims show how the protagonist in Silence is a Sense manipulates disadvantages following associated with trauma create her own voice. Layla AlAmmar employs theme of elaborate on refugees’ need concede their power speech, acknowledging past, present future existence. Through te...

We evaluate the QoS of a number of VoIP endpoints, in terms of mouth-to-ear (M2E) delay, clock skew, silence suppression behavior and robustness to packet loss. Our results show that the M2E delay depends mainly on the receiving endpoint. Hardware IP phones, when acting as receivers, usually achieve a low average M2E delay (45-90 ms) under low jitter conditions. Software clients achieve an aver...

Internet real-time voice communication involves transmitting digitised voice signals which can be lost in the packet switched network environment of TCP/IP, thereby causing intermittent voice losses and quality degradations. Various methods such as silence substitution, waveform substitution, sample interpolation, Xor mechanism, embedded speech coding, and combined rate and control mechanism ha...

Background. There is a limited number of studies investigating the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational silence, especially in the sports sector. Objectives. This study aims to examine the effects of organizational silence perception on organizational commitment behaviors of employees in the sports sector in Istanbul. Methods. The participants of this study were 2...