- Title
- Remains to be said: The "um" in art and other disfluencies
- Creator
- de Jager, Maureen
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147369
- Identifier
- vital:38630
- Identifier
- https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC45815
- Description
- Taking as my starting point an artwork of "fillers" - a 2010 sound piece by Fine Art student Romie Sciscio foregrounding the disfluent speech of various visiting academics to the Department of Fine Art, Rhodes University - I propose that speech disfluencies such as "um", "kind of" and "I suppose" should not simply be derided as white noise or verbal graffiti. Rather, filled pauses - understood both literally and metaphorically - may be seen to function critically, precisely because they are located neither inside nor outside the "message" of speech. They hover between presence and absence, seemingly content-less and yet dimly portentous: they do and do not matter to meaning. As such, they require (or provoke and demand) a different kind of listening - the acoustic equivalent of reading between the lines.
- Format
- 20 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Image and Text: a Journal for Design, De Jager, M., 2011. Remains to be said... The "um" in art and other disfluencies. Image and Text: a Journal for Design, 2011(17), pp.44-63., Image and Text: a Journal for Design volume 17 number 44 63 January 2011 1020-1491
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