Silence and Attunement in Legal Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12122000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Mulcahy (0000-0001-9200-054X, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-207 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0829-3201 • E-ISSN: 1911-0227 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cls.2019.18 |
| OpenAlex | W2979599170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 24 |
Whilst the law maintains a right to silence, the sensorial and performative dimensions of that silence are seldom considered. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach, informed by legal theory and scholarship in the performing arts, such as theatre, performance studies, and music, as a way of understanding how silence plays in the court. The paper offers a typology to navigate the interpretation of silence in legal performance—both verbal and environmental—and to frame discussion of silence’s impact on the legal audience. The author concludes that silence is used and experienced in a similar way in legal and theatrical performance, namely as a means of attunement. The paper contributes new insights into the existing scholarship on acoustic jurisprudence and invites listening to the gaps in speech, the pauses, the background noise, and the silence in the court
Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Attunement · Interpretation (philosophy · Jurisprudence · Linguistics · Performative utterance · Political science · Scholarship · Silence · Sociology · Communication · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
Theology as Improvisation
A Voice and Nothing More
Silence, Feminism, Power
Long Walk to Freedom
Closed-Circuit Television Testimony
Legal Performance Good and Bad
Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual
Acoustic Jurisprudence
Lethal Theatre
The Pause That Follows
Toward a Phenomenological Model of the Actor's Embodied Modes of Experience
An Enactive Approach to Understanding Acting
Atmospheric Attunements
How Silent is the Right to Silence
Performance Theory
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |