Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training by Andrea Caban, Julie Foh, and Jeffrey Parker (review)

In offering this approach, the authors of the book set up learning the IPA to be a fairly straight-forward task. Because the readers of the text have had so many opportunities to read and practice sounds as actions, they can then examine the IPA chart to make a logical connection between the action...

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Published in:Theatre Topics 2022-07, Vol.32 (2), p.109-110
Main Author: Barnes, Michael J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Phonemes
Phonetics
Phonology
Skills
Sound
Speaking
Speech
Speech Improvement
Speech Skills
Teaching Methods
Vowels
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Summary:In offering this approach, the authors of the book set up learning the IPA to be a fairly straight-forward task. Because the readers of the text have had so many opportunities to read and practice sounds as actions, they can then examine the IPA chart to make a logical connection between the action and the symbol representing that action. Because of this, the authors can cover the entire concept of all the sounds and diacritic markings (additional symbols that further define the sounds) in three modules. [...]the book ends with a set of precepts with the goal of empowering actors to make informed speech choices for performance, in a manner that best represents the actor and the text being performed.
ISSN:1054-8378
1086-3346
1086-3346
DOI:10.1353/tt.2022.0019