Analysis reveals how silence serves as a significant pragmatic tool in an abuse victim's legal case, highlighting communication barriers.
The present article focuses on the scope of silence as a linguistic element that has Pragmatic value, in particular in the Argentinian chronicle titled Donde no hago pie and written by Belén López Peiró. The text is a reconstruction of the (legal) case of abuse suffered by the author and the following trial, where the victim is not able to answer several questions addressed to her.
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Deborah Rothstein (2025) studied this question.
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