As distinct from text-print and text-seen,
text-sound
refers to texts that must be sounded and thus heard to be read,
in contrast to those that must be printed and thus seen. The term text-sound
is preferable to sound-text,
if only to acknowledge the initial presence of a text, which is subject to aural enhancements more typical of music. To be precise, it is by nonmelodic auditory structures that language or verbal sounds are poetically charged with meanings or resonances they would...
