What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?: The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception (Sou - Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Sound and Meaning: the Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics Ser.: What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive? : The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception by Reuven Tsur (1992, Hardcover)

Midtown Scholar Bookstore (179613)

100% positive feedback

Price:

$40.40

Free 2-4 day delivery

Get it between Thu, May 15 and Sat, May 17

Returns:

30 days returns. Buyer pays for return shipping. If you use an eBay shipping label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

Good

Since 2001. Condition : Good. Signed : False. Pages : 188. Publication Date : 1992-01-31.

About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-10082231164X

ISBN-139780822311645

eBay Product ID (ePID)11038612211

Product Key Features

Number of Pages188 Pages

Publication NameWhat Makes Sound Patterns Expressive? : the Poetic Mode of Speech Perception

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

SubjectLinguistics / Phonetics & Phonology, Poetry, Linguistics / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorReuven Tsur

SeriesSound and Meaning: the Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN91-000585

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal414/.6

SynopsisPoets, 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., 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 for linguists and psychologists. Research in recent decades has established two distinct types of aural perception: a nonspeech mode, in which the acoustic signals are received in the manner of musical sounds or natural noises; and a speech mode, in which acoustic signals are excluded from awareness and only an abstract phonetic category is perceived. Here, Tsur proposes a third type of speech perception, a poetic mode in which some part of the acoustic signal becomes accessible, however faintly, to consciousness. Using Roman Jakobson's model of childhood acquisition of the phonological system, Tsur shows how the nonreferential babbling sounds made by infants form a basis for aesthetic valuation of language. He tests the intersubjective and intercultural validity of various spatial and tactile metaphors for certain sounds. Illustrating his insights with reference to particular literary texts, Tsur considers the relative merits of cognitive and psychoanalytic approaches to the emotional symbolism of speech sounds.

LC Classification NumberP119.T78 1992