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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This edited volume brings together cutting-edge studies from
emerging scholars of East/Southeast Asia who explore the role of
mobile media in the contemporary transformation of the region's
social intimacies, from the romantic to the familial to the
communal. By providing a regional and transnational overview of
such studies, it affords new insights into how these mobile
technologies have contributed to the rise of 'glocal intimacies'.
This pertains to the normalisation and intensification of how
people's relationships of closeness are entangled in the
ever-shifting and constantly negotiated flows between global
modernity and local everyday life. In providing case studies of
mobile media and glocal intimacies, the chapters in the volume
attend to a broad range of countries that include China, Korea,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, and Taiwan. This
illustrates the differing ways in which mobile media might be
embedded in the region's divergent articulations of social
intimacies, which reflect the ongoing tensions between Western and
Asian imaginaries of modernity. The chapters also discuss a wide
array of mobile media that people use, from social media platforms
like Facebook and Instagram, to messaging apps like KakaoTalk and
WhatsApp, to dating apps like Tinder and Blued. This allows for a
mapping out of the different levels of impact that mobile media
might have on social intimacies in a region that contains some of
the most technologically advanced as well as the most
technologically behind societies in the world. In summary, this
book allows readers to take a comparative approach to understanding
the complexity of the glocal intimacies that are emerging from the
ways people in Asia use mobile media to reconfigure their local
ties and to enact global relationships. This volume will benefit
students, academics, and researchers who are keen in media and
communication, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and Asian
studies. "This exciting and much-needed book will greatly advance
our efforts to decolonise media and communications research. The
chapters offer empirically rich and nuanced accounts that challenge
the dominant paradigms about mediated intimacy." Mirca Madianou,
Goldsmiths, University of London "This collection develops the
original concept of 'glocal intimacies' to describe how mobile
media have become a crucial site where new social intimacies are
enacted, reinforced and transformed in Asia. It introduces fresh
empirical research from emerging scholars to furnish deep
theoretical insights into these imaginaries and practices." Audrey
Yue, National University of Singapore
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 16 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.
This book examines the history of disaster management in South
Africa, showing how experts, professionals and policymakers have
crafted and implemented disaster policies from the mid-twentieth
century to the present day. It assesses the ways in which states
become concerned with disasters, the extent to which disaster
management contributes toward state formation, and who and what
disaster management protects. It also considers the ways in which
the politics of protection continuously shift as political regimes
change. In telling the story of how policies surrounding disaster
protection have evolved in South Africa, the book demonstrates how
the security apparatus that shaped disaster management was
re-oriented in the twenty-first century towards development,
alongside bureaucratic reforms that aimed to democratize the state.
By examining the wider context of the globalization of disaster
management, it also highlights the often unrecognised role of
experts from Africa, Latin America and Asia in shaping global
disaster policies. The book will appeal to scholars and students of
disaster governance, public policy, state formation, and African
politics.
Finite reductive groups and their representations lie at the
heart of group theory. This volume treats linear representations of
finite reductive groups and their modular aspects together with
Hecke algebras, complex reflection groups, quantum groups,
arithmetic groups, Lie groups, symmetric groups and general finite
groups.
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 16 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.
Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor
Training is a beginner's guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork (R), a
method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for
actors from all language, racial, cultural, and gender backgrounds
and identities. This book provides a progression of playful,
practical exercises designed to build a truly universal set of
speech skills that any actor can use, such as the ability to
identify, discern, and execute every sound found in every language
on the planet. By observing different types of flow through the
vocal tract, vocal tract anatomy, articulator actions, and how
these components can be combined, readers will understand and
recreate the process by which language is learned. They will then
be introduced to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and will
practice using the IPA for narrow transcription of speech sounds.
The book also offers both an intellectual and physical
understanding of oral posture and how it contributes to vocal
characterization and accent work. This approach to speech training
is descriptive, giving students a wide and diverse set of speech
sounds and skills to utilize for any character in any project, and
it establishes a foundation for future accent study and
acquisition. Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual
Approach to Actor Training is an excellent resource for teachers
and students of speech and actor training, as well as aspiring
actors looking to diversify their speech skills.
Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States
for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and
guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site
for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of
labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American
history since 1898.T
Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor
Training is a beginner's guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork (R), a
method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for
actors from all language, racial, cultural, and gender backgrounds
and identities. This book provides a progression of playful,
practical exercises designed to build a truly universal set of
speech skills that any actor can use, such as the ability to
identify, discern, and execute every sound found in every language
on the planet. By observing different types of flow through the
vocal tract, vocal tract anatomy, articulator actions, and how
these components can be combined, readers will understand and
recreate the process by which language is learned. They will then
be introduced to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and will
practice using the IPA for narrow transcription of speech sounds.
The book also offers both an intellectual and physical
understanding of oral posture and how it contributes to vocal
characterization and accent work. This approach to speech training
is descriptive, giving students a wide and diverse set of speech
sounds and skills to utilize for any character in any project, and
it establishes a foundation for future accent study and
acquisition. Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual
Approach to Actor Training is an excellent resource for teachers
and students of speech and actor training, as well as aspiring
actors looking to diversify their speech skills.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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