| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Contents |
Ahem -- St ... st ... st -- Hiss -- Hic -- Mmmm -- Grrr -- Pprrpffrrppffff -- Tittle-tattle -- Zzzz |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-233) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human sounds.
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Sociolinguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Human sounds.
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Sociolinguistics.
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| Genre/Form |
Human sounds.
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Human sounds.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781306539968 |
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130653996X |
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9781780233031 |
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1780233035 |
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