Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations

Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations

2014 • 224 pages

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.

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