Surgers, Anne, Et que dit ce silence ? la rhétorique du visible, Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 2007 Abstract Before writing became the medium of thought and knowledge, image was an essential mean of discourse transmission. And What Does This Silence Say? is a tool for the reading and translation of this silent language: that of painting, architecture or stage design, when the image still constituted an autonomous discourse and not simply an illustration of the word. This volume is presented as a dictionary. Its reader selects his paths following his questionings and desires: is he interested by a rhetorical term’s meaning? Or by its use? Does he want to assess…