Many social animals produce seemingly haphazard sounds which are known as contact calls. Joseph Jordania has suggested that in social animals (including humans), silence can be a sign of danger. Women used silence not as a sign of voicelessness or submissiveness but as a rhetorical construct to raise their voice of gender equality. It has been specifically articulated that silence is attentive and communicative. Each agenda has a meaning, which communicates with the outside world. Silence is beyond passivity, rather it is an intentional moment in language with specific agendas. Silence as a rhetorical practice enables women to better communicate, persuade, and construct knowledge. This silence (muteness) reflects the voice of resistance. Their anger and state of being wild are reflected through muteness to the outside world. From his point of view, children sometimes become angry and wild when they are suppressed. The instance that the author used is wild children.
In other words, it is a construct used against any type of inequality, oppression, and injustice. It is used as a voice to empower one or a group of people. Silence functions as a rhetorical strategy. These rhetorical practices lead to the articulation of new meanings. There are always some meanings, intentions, and goals that cannot be expressed linguistically in words and there are always voices that cannot be raised through sounds, rather they are all reflected through silence. One of those advantages of silence is to achieve various types of rhetorical and literacy practices. Rhetorical silence targets audience rather than the rhetorician. When silence becomes rhetorical, it is intentional since it reflects a meaning. Rhetorical silence cannot be explained since it happens when lack of communication is not expected. It has not merely been recognized as a theory but also as a phenomenon with practical advantages. Silence may become an effective rhetorical practice when people choose to be silent for a specific purpose. This lyrical and inspiring book expands on a new idea, offering a way forward for all those feeling affected by the frenetic pace of our modern world.Silence as a rhetorical practice In 2013, Pico Iyer gave a blockbuster TED Talk. Ultimately, Iyer shows that, in this age of constant movement and connectedness, perhaps staying in one place is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before. The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so many-from Marcel Proust to Mahatma Gandhi to Emily Dickinson-have found richness in stillness. Growing trends like observing an “Internet Sabbath”-turning off online connections from Friday night to Monday morning-highlight how increasingly desperate many of us are to unplug and bring stillness into our lives. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age. He reflects that this is perhaps the reason why many people-even those with no religious commitment-seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or seeking silent retreats.
Iyer also draws on his own experiences as a travel writer to explore why advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. In The Art of Stillness-a TED Books release-Iyer investigate the lives of people who have made a life seeking stillness: from Matthieu Ricard, a Frenchman with a PhD in molecular biology who left a promising scientific career to become a Tibetan monk, to revered singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who traded the pleasures of the senses for several years of living the near-silent life of meditation as a Zen monk. There’s never been a greater need to slow down, tune out and give ourselves permission to be still. Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has journeyed from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, think that sitting quietly in a room might be the ultimate adventure? Because in our madly accelerating world, our lives are crowded, chaotic and noisy. A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.
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