Beyond words : sobs, hums, stutters and other vocalizations / Steven Connor.

  • Connor, Steven, 1955-
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Description

In Beyond Words, Steven Connor seeks to understand spoken human language outside words, a realm that encompasses the sounds we make that bring depth, meaning, and confusion to communication. Plunging into the connotations and uses associated with particular groups of vocal utterances - the guttural, the dental, the fricative, and the sibilant - he reveals the beliefs, the myths, and the responses that surround the growls, stutters, ums, ers, and ahs of everyday language.

Publication/Creation

London : Reaktion Books, 2014.

Physical description

239 pages ; 22 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-233) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: One. Ahem -- Two. St ... st ... st -- Three. Hiss -- Four. Hic -- Five. Mmmm -- Six. Grrr -- Seven. Pprrpffrrppffff -- Eight. Tittle-tattle -- Nine. Zzzz.

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    History of Medicine
    PQL.U
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ISBN

  • 9781780232584
  • 1780232586