Words Fail Us - In Defense of Disfluency

Lifelong stutterer Jonty Claypole challenges the cult of fluency and champions the creative powers of inarticulacy. At once a cultural history of inarticulacy, a memoir and a practical guide to finding your voice.

About the author

Jonty Claypole is an arts leader, producer and writer. He received an MBE for his role supporting British culture through the pandemic.

Summary

A lifelong stutterer dismantles the cult of fluency and champions the creative powers of inarticulacy.

Foreword

A lifelong stutterer dismantles the cult of fluency and champions the creative powers of inarticulacy

Product details

• Authors: Jonty Claypole
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2021
• EAN: 9781788161718
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-171-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; popular science, SCIENCE / General, Psychology, Memoirs, HEALTH & FITNESS / Hearing & Speech, Popular medicine & health, History of Science, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Speech and language disorders and therapy, Speech & language disorders & therapy, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine