Beyond words : sobs, hums, stutters and other vocalizations /

Connor, Steven.

Beyond words : sobs, hums, stutters and other vocalizations / Steven Connor. - London : Reaktion Books, 2014. - 239 pages : 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-233) and index.

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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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Human sounds.
Sociolinguistics.

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