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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connor, Steven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Human sounds.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Reaktion Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and other Vocalizations; Imprint Page; Contents; One: Ahem; Two: St . . . st . . . st; Three: Hiss; Four: Hic; Five: Mmmm; Six: Grrr; Seven: Pprrpffrrppffff; Eight: Tittle-tattle; Nine: Zzzz; Epilogue Blottybus in Blottis; References; Further Reading; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9781780233031

1780233035

OCLC:

871781831