Beyond words : sobs, hums, stutters and other vocalizations / / Steven Connor
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| Autore: |
Connor Steven
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| Titolo: |
Beyond words : sobs, hums, stutters and other vocalizations / / Steven Connor
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| Pubblicazione: | London, [England] : , : Reaktion Books, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.44 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sociolinguistics |
| Human sounds | |
| Language and languages | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond words |
| ISBN: | 1-78023-303-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820556703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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