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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 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 collection of essays includes historical and theological
studies in the sacraments from a Baptist perspective. Subjects
explored include the physical side of being spiritual, baptism, the
Lord's Supper, the church, ordination, preaching, worship,
religious liberty and the issue of disestablishment.
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