Silence is a relative or total lack of sound. An environment with sound below 20 decibels is considered quiet or silent. Silence in Social Interaction: Functions, Meanings, and Interpretations. Silence is noticed through the basic human need of social interaction; communication. Categorized into forms and functions, silence can fall into three distinct sections ( Bruneau, 1973). These categories describe instances either mental or social or a combination thereof, in which silence can be found and thereafter interpreted. First is the Psychological, second Interactive, and third is sociocultural. All of these are distinctly defined through time, context, and perception. The physiological form of silence can be identified through momentary silences in communicative interaction like hesitation, stutters, self-correction, deliberate slowing of speech for the purpose of clarification or mental processing of ideas to elaborate

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