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Speaking with Skill An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speech Work

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ISBN-10: 140815689X

ISBN-13: 9781408156896

Edition: 2012

Authors: Dudley Knight

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 8/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.56" wide x 8.47" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Dudley Knight is Professor Emeritus and Former Vice Chair of Drama and former Head of Acting at Claire Trevor School of the Arts University of California, Irvine.� He has over forty year's of teaching in Voice Production, Speech, Dialects, Acting, at the following institutions: Master Teacher at The Actors Center, New York; Yale School of Drama; American Conservatory Theatre; UCLA; American Academy of Dramatic Arts/West; Lee Strasberg Institute; University of Southern California; California State University--Northridge; Theatricum Botanicum, Los Angeles; University of Colorado--Boulder; University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee; South Coast Repertory; Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy;…    

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Making Sounds
Silence
The space that shapes sound
From silence to sound
The muscles that shape sound: the tool kit
"Phthong" shaping
Obstruents: obstructing the flow
Finding language
Exploring the limits: Outlandish
Obstruents within language
The physical actions of obstruents in language
The empty obstruent chart
Making your own language
An interlude: a daily articulation warm-up
Phonetics
Writing it down
Writing the consonants
Sound to word
Writing the vowels
American vowel phonemes
New vowels for diphthongs
All the vowel phonemes
Combinations
Mid-central offglide diphthongs
Polysyllabic words
Connected speech
The skills of intelligibilty
Formal and informal speech
Consonant skills
Vowel skills
Putting it all together
Index