What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?

by Reuven Tsur

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 nons

ISBN: 9780822311706

196 pages

Published: 1992-01-01

Publisher: Duke University Press

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