Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson Speechwork® Guide for Acting in Accent

Thompson, Philip/ Seiple, Tyler/ Caban, Andrea

Routledge（2023/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032324159
• DDC分類 792.028

Full Description

Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson Speechwork® Guide for Acting in Accent presents a comprehensive and systematic approach to accent acquisition for actors. It lays out an accessible and effective set of tools, exercises, and theoretical frameworks grounded in current linguistic science, as well as more than two decades of teaching, actor training, and coaching developed by Knight-Thompson Speechwork®.

This book dismantles the notions that accents exist on a spectrum of good and bad or that "neutral," "general," or "standard" can serve as ideals for speech. By de-centering elitist and authoritarian worldviews, it gives actors a path to mobilize their innate language abilities to acquire any accent, relying on descriptive and experiential knowledge. The innovative approach of the Four Ps - People, Prosody, Posture, and Pronunciation - builds cultural competence that honors accents as they exist in the world, increases the physical and perceptive skills of the actor, and provides a rich variety of applications to encourage fluid and embodied accent performance. Each of the Four Ps are investigated and practiced separately and then synthesized in the art of the performer, allowing actors to address the complexity of acting in accent through a deliberate and sequential layering of skills, rendering the final expression of their technique meticulously accurate and deeply authentic.

Organized into fifteen modules to correspond with a typical semester, Experiencing Accents is perfect for Theatre students in voice, speech, and accents courses, along with working actors interested in improving their accent work.

Contents

Teacher Introduction

Student Introduction

Preface

Part I: Foundations

Module 1: Orienting

Module 2: Unpacking

Module 3: The Four P's

Part II: Exploring the Four P's

Module 4: People - Asking Questions

Module 5: People - Doing Research

Module 6: Prosody - Listen and Sing

Module 7: Prosody - The Meaning of Music

Module 8: Posture - Listen with Your Mouth

Module 9: Posture - Speech as Movement

Module 10: Pronunciation - Categories

Module 11: Pronunciation - Particulars

Module 12: The Four P's Combined

Part III: Performance and Play

Module 13: Accent Celebrations

Module 14: Embodied Practice

Module 15: Experiencing Play