Online Auditory Essay- Dowling

In this essay Professor Sloan was proving that today's society doesn't communicate through simply writing or verbal communication but with a lot of sounds too. Sound has a great affect on the meaning of what we say. For example if you say yes to answer a question there isn't much emphasis on the word. But if you're saying yes because you are excited about something then you may shout the word and emphasize it a lot more. I definitely agreed with Sloan's point about how a song's music and how it sounds is typically more important than they lyrics. I think when people say they like a song they first decide on how it sounds, then later when they actually hear the lyrics it will not matter how they feel about them as much because they already know they like the song. Sloan's example of Chuck Barry's "Johnny Be Good" is an excellent example, Chuck is talking so fast many listeners probably missed what he was saying but a lot of people like the way it sounds. A lot of what Sloan is saying is about how sound is more important because it completely affects what we are saying by how we say it, with that said, when things are all written via the internet, we lose this ability.