Beyond Words
Subtitle: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: Feb 15, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781780232584
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.
Notes: Source title: Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations