Meanings
comparative more inconceptualisable · superlative most inconceptualisable
- alternativeAlternative spelling of inconceptualizable.
As a medium the human voice is distinct from language; it has its origin in a time before language (i.e. in the noise of prelinguistic babble), and functions as an index for that which goes beyond or cannot be expressed in language (e.g. in the display of inconceptualisable emotion).
2011, Alice Lagaay, “Towards a (Negative) Philosophy of Voice”, in Lynne Kendrick, David Roesner, editors, Theatre Noise: The Sound of Performance, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 64
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