Speaking With Skill: A Skills Based Approach to Speech Training

by Knight, Dudley

• ISBN13: 9781408156896
• ISBN10: 140815689X
• Edition: Book 5
• Format: Paperback w/DVD
• Copyright: 2012-09-30
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Summary

'Dudley Knight is one of the most respected voice and speech teachers in North America and highly regarded internationally.' Janet Madelle Feindel, Associate Professor of Voice and Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University Speaking with Skillmarks a fundamental change in the pedagogy of speech training for actors and speakers. It presents a skills-based approach to speech training and offers a wider range of techniques and a more integrated approach to speech actions and phonetic transcription than are found in other speech texts for theatre. Speaking with Skillreintegrates speech training with the allied fields of linguistics and voice science and represents the first serious reexamination of the archaic standards and pedagogy that have dominated speech training for actors and other professional speakers in America. The method employed in this book is already and increasingly being used by instructors on major actor training programs in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK.

Author Biography

Dudley Knight is Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of California, Irvine. He has had an extensive stage career that includes major roles in regional theatres along with hundreds of roles in film, television, radio, and voice-over. He is certified as master teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and has enjoyed a 40 year career as voice, speech, text, and dialect teacher and voice/text director for professional theatre. He conducts workshops and lectures on voice and speech for actors and voice teachers nationwide and is Currently Editor-in-Chief of Voice and Speech Review.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Making Sounds	p. 1
Silence	p. 3
The space that shapes sound	p. 11
From silence to sound	p. 21
The muscles that shape sound: the tool kit	p. 35
"Phthong" shaping	p. 65
Obstruents: obstructing the flow	p. 71
Finding language	p. 77
Exploring the limits: Outlandish	p. 79
Obstruents within language	p. 83
The physical actions of obstruents in language	p. 85
The empty obstruent chart	p. 93
Making your own language	p. 99
An interlude: a daily articulation warm-up	p. 111
Phonetics	p. 113
Writing it down	p. 119
Writing the consonants	p. 123
Sound to word	p. 155
Writing the vowels	p. 165
American vowel phonemes	p. 179
New vowels for diphthongs	p. 185
All the vowel phonemes	p. 193
Combinations	p. 199
Mid-central offglide diphthongs	p. 207
Polysyllabic words	p. 213
Connected speech	p. 221
The skills of intelligibilty	p. 235
Formal and informal speech	p. 237
Consonant skills	p. 253
Vowel skills	p. 279
Putting it all together	p. 295
Index	p. 321
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