What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive? - The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception

Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. Such intuitions are Reuven Tsur's point of departure in this investigation into the expressive effect of sound patterns, addressing questions of great concern for literary theorists and critics as well as linguists and psychologists.

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Reuven Tsur

Summary

Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. This title investigates the expressive effect of sound patterns, addressing questions of concern for literary theorists and critics as well as for linguists and psychologists.

Product details

• Authors: Reuven Tsur
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.1992
• EAN: 9780822311706
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1170-6
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 227 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 286 g
• Series: Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics; Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics; Sound and Meaning: The Roman J
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics