Beyond words : sobs, hums, stutters and other vocalizations /

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, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Connor, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Reaktion Books, 2014.
Temas:
Human sounds.
Sociolinguistics.
Sons humains.
Sociolinguistique.
sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Human sounds
Sociolinguistics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. Beyond Words goes outside of linguistics and phonetics to focus on the popular conceptions of what la.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (241 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-233) and index.
ISBN:9781306539968
130653996X
9781780233031
1780233035

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