|
View Poll Results: Do you subvocalize? | |||
Yes, (almost) always. No matter what I read, my internal lector speaks to me. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
44 | 51.76% |
Yes, but only when I read stories. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
12 | 14.12% |
Only when I've got time to spend. It's faster to just "know" the words. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
7 | 8.24% |
No, I just don't see the point in doing so. / Never heard of this before. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
18 | 21.18% |
Voices in your head? You guys are weird... |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
4 | 4.71% |
Voters: 85. You may not vote on this poll |
![]() |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
![]() |
#31 | |
Professional Adventuress
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 13,368
Karma: 50260224
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!)
Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#32 |
Illiterate
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 10,279
Karma: 37848716
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The Sandwich Isles
Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro
|
I didn't answer the poll because my category wasn't one of the options. I subvocalize when reading something that I'm not really interested in, but need to know. E.g. legal and regulatory stuff, technical stuff , and most things that are beyond my comfort level.
It's been a few years since I've been in school, but I would think something like an assignment in my least favorite subject might qualify. |
![]() |
![]() |
Advert | |
|
![]() |
#33 | |
Series Addict
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 6,180
Karma: 167189477
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Florida, USA
Device: Kindle Paperwhite (2nd Gen)
|
Quote:
Hogwarts was a wonderful place of discovery. I could see the "Fat Lady" at the door, the moving stair case(s), even Diagon Alley. I was thrilled when so many faces and things in the movies looked exactly as I pictured them from the books. I was most please with Harry, Hermione, Hagrad, the first Dumbledore and Snape. In fact, the only person that struck me as "wrong" was Harry's Aunt; she looked nothing like my internal image. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#34 |
Addict
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 254
Karma: 59872
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: New York, USA
Device: Kindle 3 (wifi) + nokia n900 tablet phone
|
I don't usually sub-vocalize as defined in the poll. For people curious about what that's like, for me the closest analogy is reading a stock market ticker...words "flow across" my mental landscape
![]() I do occasionally hum to myself in a reading tone when reading (another kind of sub-vocalization). I do that with very dry technical books. It tends to annoy people around me. In those cases, I hear my own mental voice reading the books aloud. The audible noise I make is sort of "Mmm mmm MUH...hmm...MMMmmmnnnn...." Yes, it does annoy the heck out of people around me. Very rarely, an author will write beautifully enough that I hear voices for each of the characters. For me, that's a sign of a superlative work. I have to stop my eyes at each paragraph break/dialogue change to let the inner narrators catch up. It makes for some strange situations when each speaker is not clearly telegraphed. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#35 | |
Illiterate
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 10,279
Karma: 37848716
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The Sandwich Isles
Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
Advert | |
|
![]() |
#36 | |
Guru
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 754
Karma: 9209502
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Virginia
Device: Boox Note Air3, Palma, K-Scribe, Eclipsa 2e, & Libra 2, Ipads
|
Quote:
![]() But for me, if the book is well written grammar wise, and there are no visual 'speed bumps' to throw me out, I quit seeing the works and see a video of all the action and characters in my head pretty much right off. I've learned to navigate small typos and mistakes pretty easily, but big errors bump me out of video mode and I see the words again. One of the things that annoys me is when an author doesn't give much in the way of descriptions, so I don't start out with a good visual. I just read a couple of books with two main male characters, and the author described everyone else enough that I could grab a visual and go. But the two main characters only were 1) English 2) brothers 3) mid thirties and 4) one had thinner hair than the other. No hair color, eye color, height, skin tone, build, or anything that would tell me what the other characters saw. I liked the stories themselves, but the character were pretty blob-like in my head until I finally settled on what they looked like. The author may have had an idea of what his characters looked like, but he didn't get it across to me! I get frustrated with that. Makes my movie fuzzy. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#37 |
Professional Adventuress
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 13,368
Karma: 50260224
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!)
Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle
|
I wish this discussion had been held pre-film. I wonder how much we are influenced by that?
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#38 | |
Evangelist
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 439
Karma: 2248782
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Austria
Device: Inkbook Prime; Icarus Illumina;ImcoV6l;EB600;Kobo
|
Quote:
A movie producer was complaining to the author that he didn't describe his characters, making it impossible to define a visual representation of them. Till now I didn't really think about that beyond the obvious book->movie transition. When I say I "see a movie" in my head when reading, it's not entirely true. I don't really see any visuals, or rather rarely. It's more of having an idea of the book running in my head. So I'm not much bothered by missing visuals, and rely more on conversation to advance the story/describe the characters. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#39 | |
Canucklehead in Malaysia
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,633
Karma: 3127774
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Device: iPhone, Kindle
|
Quote:
A friend of mine is blind and he said when he reads he sees the words as a picture, but because he has never seen it is very hard for him to describe it, I think KK might be on to something here. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#40 | |
Cannon Fodder
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 2,878
Karma: 52253556
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Probably a library
Device: PRS-350, Kindle DX, Kindle Paperwhite
|
Quote:
In the past year, I have watched less than 10 hours of TV, watched about 5 movies in theaters, and read over 100 books. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#41 | |
Cannon Fodder
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 2,878
Karma: 52253556
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Probably a library
Device: PRS-350, Kindle DX, Kindle Paperwhite
|
Quote:
![]() |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#42 |
Reading and reading
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 582
Karma: 8250144
Join Date: Oct 2010
Device: Infibeam Pi, iPod Touch 4G, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 2, Oneplus One
|
I do sub-vocalize, but not in the manner you are saying. I don't hear the pitch change. All words are in constant array of volume, pitch and rate of reading except minor clicks due to word's phonetic itself. If Britons sub-vocalize, it will take them ages to read their books.
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#43 | |
Canucklehead in Malaysia
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,633
Karma: 3127774
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Device: iPhone, Kindle
|
Quote:
![]() |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#44 | |
Bibliophile
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 63
Karma: 23426
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Missouri, USA (the Dark Side of the Rainbow)
Device: Kindle Paperwhite 11th Gen
|
Quote:
I hear different characters in different voices, the narrative is my own voice (I think) and I most definitely have a "movie" playing in my head. But not in the film sense. It's more like I visualize what I think a particular scene or action sequence would look like. Then a bit of narrative, then another scene. So my "movie" is not continuously flowing the entire time. As a side note, I worked in a movie theater for 4 years, so this is interesting to see so many people with the "movie" concept. Didn't know if it was just how I was, or a product of my experience. ![]() |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#45 |
Book Geek
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 596
Karma: 1499085
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Device: Kobo Touch, Asus MemPad 7" tablet, Nexus 5, Asus 10" tablet
|
I couldn't imagine "sub-vocalising" unless I was reading a play or a piece of poetry. It must slow down your reading speed a lot. The print just goes straight in to my brain! I read "chunks" of text, whole short paragraphs,at once.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Do you finish reading every book you start reading? | JSWolf | General Discussions | 56 | 08-12-2010 05:52 PM |
Screen Reading and Print Reading | Harmon | News | 0 | 11-03-2009 01:35 PM |
Beach reading or bathtub reading, anyone? | Kevin2088 | Sony Reader | 30 | 06-18-2009 07:34 PM |
Reading for leisure - reading on an eBook | moraine | Introduce Yourself | 0 | 12-02-2008 03:31 PM |
Environmental study: 30 min of e-paper reading = 30 mins of print reading | Steven Lyle Jordan | News | 36 | 12-14-2007 03:29 PM |