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Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations
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Description for Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations
Hardback. Probing the fringes of human communication, Beyond Words is an account of language outside words: the growls, stutters, ums, and ahs of everyday conversation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 448.
Aristotle defined voice as 'a particular sound made by something with a soul; for nothing which does not have a soul has a voice'. Beyond Words encompasses human language outside words, the realm of the sounds of the mouth, controlled and automatic, which bring depth, meaning and confusion in equal measure to our communication as humans. Steven Connor takes in the phantasmal life of excitements, identifications and recoils associated with particular groups of vocal utterances - the guttural, the dental, the fricative and the sibilant - and reveals our beliefs, myths and responses to the growls, ... Read more
Aristotle defined voice as 'a particular sound made by something with a soul; for nothing which does not have a soul has a voice'. Beyond Words encompasses human language outside words, the realm of the sounds of the mouth, controlled and automatic, which bring depth, meaning and confusion in equal measure to our communication as humans. Steven Connor takes in the phantasmal life of excitements, identifications and recoils associated with particular groups of vocal utterances - the guttural, the dental, the fricative and the sibilant - and reveals our beliefs, myths and responses to the growls, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780232584
SKU
V9781780232584
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Ref
99-15
About Unknown
Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the author of numerous Reaktion books, including A Philosophy of Sport (2011).
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