What makes sound patterns expressive? : the poetic mode of speech perception / Reuven Tsur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsur, Reuven.

Contributor:

Tsur, Reuven.

Series:

Sound and meaning.

Sound and meaning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound symbolism.

Speech perception.

Versification.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poets, academics and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. Such intuitions are the point of departure in this investigation into the expressive effect of sound patterns.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. How Do Sound Patterns Know They Are Expressive? The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception

2. On Musicality in Verse and Phonological Universals

3. Some Spatial and Tactile Metaphors for Sounds

4. A Reading of Rimbaud's "Voyelles"

5. Psychoanalytic or Cognitive Explanation

References

Index

Notes:

Revised edition of: How do the sound patterns know they are expressive?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Related Work:

Tsur, Reuven. How do the sound patterns know they are expressive?

ISBN:

9780822378365

0822378361

OCLC:

893682260