Silence can be the abstention from speaking or, failing that, the absence of noise..
Refrain from talking or absence of noise
Within the framework of a conversation, of a talk, silence can present different issues, that is, form part of the normal punctuation of a sentence, when you finish commenting on something, there will be silence to give the interlocutor room to respond to the comment we have made; or on the contrary, the silence in the middle of a conversation could have a dramatic charge precisely related to something that is being talked about and the intention of saying something with silence, that is, when someone is silent many times it means much more than with words.
Let’s think of a conversation between two people in which they argue about a matter that concerns them, the silence that one of the parties may make may want to refer to the other that they no longer want to continue talking or discussing the subject, or also the lack of interest on the topic.
Factors that can trigger silence
On the other hand, there are people who choose silence, not to speak, not to answer questions or requests from anyone because if they speak they will be compromised in some act that is imputed to them.
This usually happens in the judicial field where those accused of some crime usually opt for silence, for not answering questions from the investigators or the judge so that this does not further harm their situation.
And another context in which silence is recurrent is religious, especially in the case of convents where cloistered nuns reside who just take vows of silence and cannot speak to anyone, or do so minimally. Only prayer and some other type of activity is accepted, but always in silence and discreetly with respect to their companions.
Types of silence and the places where it is necessary to do it
So all these distinctions indicate the existence of two types of silences, the objective silence (which will be the absence of sound without any other type of connotation) and the subjective silence (which is the reflexive pause that will be used with the aim of accentuating what was said before or after the silence).
“When the time came for the toast, Juan asked to speak and after making a pronounced silence he told his entire family that he would be a father”; He “was talking on the phone with Laura and suddenly she fell silent because he had dizziness that caused him to faint.”
Also, silence will be the lack or reduction of noise in a given situation and place. “The silence of the house after the departure of the boys was really distressing”; “When the students were silent, the teacher was able to resume class.”
There are many places in which silence is required as a matter of respect for the situation that third parties are going through, such is the case of hospitals, medical centers, cemeteries, wakes, among others; in libraries where silence is required so that the people who are there reading books or doing some work can concentrate and do it in a consistent manner, an issue that would certainly be impossible without silence; and in the churches, silence, except in those moments in which the homily so requires, is also a recurring condition.
There are some passages of the celebration of the same in which silence is essential for the faithful to connect with God and be able to engage in a direct conversation with him without intermediaries, and of course intimate.
music: pause
Also, in the field of music we find a reference to the term silence, in this way it designates the sign that fulfills the function of indicating the duration of a pause. Each musical note has its own rest, whose values will correspond to the duration of each note. On many occasions it is defined as a note that is not played.
Another use of the word is to refer to the effect of not speaking or not expressing a matter in writing.
On the other hand, silence is also used as a verbal resource that could suddenly be used at the request of a communication to signify some special mattersuch as anger, depression, among other possibilities.
Administrative silence: rejection of an order
He Administrative silenceat the request of Rightis the tacit dismissal of a petition or resource after the deadline that the public administration had set to resolve the matter in dispute has occurred.
ask someone to be quiet
And the word silence, in an imperative sense, is used frequently to tell someone to shut up. Silence! I can not hear.
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