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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.

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"[This] study manages to bring an interdisciplinary breadth and rhetorical clarity to some of the mysteries surrounding the emotional and perceptual coloring of poetic sound-symbolism." Virginia Quarterly Review

What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 31/01/1992
      ISBN13: 9780822311706, 978-0822311706
      ISBN10: 0822311704
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "[This] study manages to bring an interdisciplinary breadth and rhetorical clarity to some of the mysteries surrounding the emotional and perceptual coloring of poetic sound-symbolism." Virginia Quarterly Review

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