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African Accents: A Workbook for Actors / Edition 1
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African Accents: A Workbook for Actors / Edition 1
Current price: $180.00
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African Accents: A Workbook for Actors / Edition 1
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This is a comprehensive workbook for actors, covering the key characteristics and profiles of a wide range of African accents of English. Its unique approach not only addresses the methods and processes by which to go about learning an accent, but also looks in detail at each example. This lets the reader plot their own route through the learning process and tailor not only their working methods but also their own personal idiolect.
- introduction
- giving a brief history of the accent, its ethnic background, and its language of origin
- preparatory
- warm-up
- exercises specific to each accent
- a directory of
- research materials
- including documentaries, plays, films and online resources
- such as melody, stress, pace and pitch
- descriptions of
- physical articulation
- in the tongue, lips, jaw, palate and pharynx
- practice sentences
- phoneme tables
- worksheets
- for solo study.