Sense of speech

The sense of speech, also called word sense or sense of words, is one of the twelve physical senses Rudolf Steiner spoke of in his teaching of the senses. Through the sense of speech we perceive speech sounds and the words formed from them as language. This distinguishes it from the sense of hearing, through which we perceive sounds but not directly words. In addition, language can also be perceived through writing or gestures.

„The sense of speech: this again has nothing to do with the formation of our own language, nothing to do first of all with the ability that underlies our own speech, but it is the sense for understanding what is spoken to us by the other person.“ (Lit.:GA 170, p. 240)

Literature

• Rainer Patzlaff: Sprache – das Lebenselixier des Kindes: Moderne Forschung und die Tiefendimensionen des gesprochenen Wortes, Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3772528583
• Rainer Patzlaff: Kindheit verstummt. Sprachverlust und Sprachpflege im Zeitalter der Medien., Heft 4 der Reihe Recht auf Kindheit - ein Menschenrecht. Herausgeber: Internat. Vereinigung der Waldorf-Kindergärten e.V.
• Johanna F. Zinke, Rainer Patzlaff (Hrsg.): Luftlautformen sichtbar gemacht. Sprache als plastische Gestaltung der Luft., Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7725-1856-7
• Peter Lutzker: Der Sprachsinn. Sprachwahrnehmung als Sinnesvorgang, Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 9783772528576, eBook ASIN B075GYZLSD
• Condon, W. S. (1996). Sound-Film Microanalysis: A Means for Correlating Brain and Behavior in Persons with Autism. Proceedings of the 1996 Autism Society of America National Conference, Milwaukee, WI, July 1996, 221–225.
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• Mary A. Key: The Relationship of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication, Walter de Gruyter 1980, ISBN 978-9027976376
• Ray L. Birdwhistell: Kinesics and Context. Essays on Body Motion Communication, Philadelphia 1970
• Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophie. Ein Fragment aus dem Jahre 1910, GA 45 (2002), ISBN 3-7274-452-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophie – Psychosophie – Pneumatosophie, GA 115 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-1150-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Rätsel des Menschen. Die geistigen Hintergründe der menschlichen Geschichte, GA 170 (1992), ISBN 3-7274-1700-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Menschenwerden, Weltenseele und Weltengeist – Zweiter Teil, GA 206 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-2060-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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