02538nam 2200589 450 991046371860332120200520144314.01-78023-303-5(CKB)2670000000531016(EBL)1644071(SSID)ssj0001211492(PQKBManifestationID)11715516(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001211492(PQKBWorkID)11202763(PQKB)10083739(MiAaPQ)EBC1644071(Au-PeEL)EBL1644071(CaPaEBR)ebr10847779(CaONFJC)MIL585247(OCoLC)871781831(EXLCZ)99267000000053101620140322h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond words sobs, hums, stutters and other vocalizations /Steven ConnorLondon, [England] :Reaktion Books,2014.©20141 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78023-258-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexIn 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 laSociolinguisticsHuman soundsLanguage and languagesElectronic books.Sociolinguistics.Human sounds.Language and languages.306.44Connor Steven221095MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463718603321Beyond words1909087UNINA