What Can A String Of Letters Possibly Mean When It Is Not A Word? Speech Soun…

Summary .— In his last novel, Finnegans Wake , James Joyce attempted to redirect readers’ search for meaning away from traditional paths by using many non-words (combinations, foreign words, neologisms, and onomatopoeic words). Words and non-words in the novel were analyzed in terms of the emotional meanings of their constituent sounds using the model developed by Whissell where motor resp…