What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?: The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception - Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics

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.