The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry

by Eric Griffiths

The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry starts from a simple fact: our written language does not represent the way we speak. Intonation, accent, tempo, and pitch of utterance can be inferred from a written text but they are not clearly demonstrated there. The book shows the implications of this fact for linguists and philosophers of language and offers fundamental criticisms of some recent work in these fields. It aims principally to describe the ways...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198827016
• ISBN13: 9780198827016
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"