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Unsettling Silence
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DOI：10.1080/10510974.2026.2618272.png)
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In this essay, we rhetorically analyze X Gonz & aacute;lez's speech at the 2018 March for Our Lives rally, a response to the Parkland school shooting. Focusing on the role of silence in Gonz & aacute;lez's speech, we introduce and develop the concept of unsettling silence, a rhetorical mode of silence that disrupts expectations, provokes discomfort, exposes inaction, and manipulates time. For members of marginalized communities, we argue, unsettling silence can function as a proactive rhetorical tactic, one that challenges dominant power structures and has the potential to catalyze social and political transformation.
Keywords:
X Gonz & aacute
lez
unsettling silence
gun control
rhetorical silence
Parkland
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