Accents & dialects for stage and screen

an instruction manual for 24 accents and dialects commonly used by English-speaking actors

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Accents & dialects for stage and screen

an instruction manual for 24 accents and dialects commonly used by English-speaking actors

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Table of Contents

Before we begin. Acting in a dialect or an accent ; International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) ; International Dialects of English Archive ; Standard lexical sets ; Comma gets a cure, special diagnostic passage ; Paul Meier Dialect Services ; For instructors ; The seven-step method ; Glossary
British and Irish dialects. Cockney ; Hampshire ; Irish ; Liverpool ; Northern Ireland ; Scottish ; Standard British, received pronunciation ; Welsh ; Yorkshire
Dialects of the United States
American Southern : Kentucky, Tennessee, southern Illinois, eastern Missouri ; Deep South : Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi ; Downeast New England ; General American ; New York ; South Boston
Other English-language dialects. Australian ; Indian
Foreign-language accents. Afrikaans ; French ; German ; Italian ; Russian ; Spanish ; Yiddish
Testing, training, and certification
Works cited.
CDs: -- 1.
The Afrikaans accent ;
the downeast New England dialect -- -- 2.
The Australian dialect ;
the Indian dialect -- -- 3.
The deep South dialect ;
the Scottish dialect -- -- 4.
A French accent ;
a Russian accent -- -- 5.
The General American dialect ;
the Hampshire dialect -- -- 6.
A German accent ;
a Spanish accent -- -- 7.
The Irish dialect ;
the dialect of Northern Ireland -- -- 8.
An Italian accent ;
the Welsh dialect -- -- 9.
The Liverpool dialect ;
the Yorkshire dialect -- -- 10.
The standard British English dialect ;
the Cockney dialect -- -- 11.
The American Southern dialect ;
The New York dialect -- -- 12.
The South Boston dialect ;
a Yiddish accent.

Edition Notes

"For use with 12 accompanying CDs."

CDs have copyright date of 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-370).

Published in
Lawrence, Kan
Other Titles
Accents and dialects for stage and screen
Copyright Date
2012

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Dewey Decimal Class
792.028
Library of Congress
PE1711 .M45 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
370 pages
Number of pages
370

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL35350916M
Internet Archive
accentsdialectsf0000meie
ISBN 10
0615461506
ISBN 13
9780615461502
OCLC/WorldCat
824623062

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