ABSTRACT
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.
Full breakdowns of each accent cover:
- an 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
- key characteristics such as melody, stress, pace and pitch
- descriptions of physical articulation in the tongue, lips, jaw, palate and pharynx
- practice sentences, phoneme tables and worksheets for solo study.
African Accents is accompanied by a website at www.routledge.com/cw/mcguire with an extensive online database of audio samples for each accent. The book and audio resources guide actors to develop their own authentic accents, rather than simply to mimic native speakers. This process allows the actor to personalize an accent, and to integrate it into the creation of character rather than to play the accent on top of character.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|21 pages
How to Use This Workbook
chapter |2 pages
Ways of Approaching an Accent
part 2|30 pages
Ugandan (Luganda) Accent of English
part 3|30 pages
Kenyan (Dholuo) Accent of English
chapter |2 pages
Front Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |2 pages
Middle Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |2 pages
Back Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |1 pages
Diphthong Sound Shifts
part 4|32 pages
Zimbabwean (Shona) Accent of English
part 5|30 pages
South African (Zulu) Accent of English
chapter |2 pages
Middle Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |2 pages
Back Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |1 pages
Diphthong Sound Shifts
part 6|31 pages
South African (Afrikaans) Accent of English
chapter |2 pages
Front Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |2 pages
Back Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |1 pages
Diphthong Sound Shifts
part 7|32 pages
Rwandan (Kinyarwanda) Accent of English
chapter |2 pages
Middle Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |2 pages
Back Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |2 pages
Diphthong Sound Shifts
part 8|32 pages
DR Congolese (Lingala) Accent of English
chapter |2 pages
Front Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |2 pages
Middle Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |2 pages
Back Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |1 pages
Diphthong Sound Shifts
part 9|31 pages
Senegalese (Wolof) Accent of English
part 10|31 pages
Nigerian (Igbo) Accent of English
chapter |2 pages
Middle Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |2 pages
Back Vowel Sound Shifts
chapter |1 pages
Diphthong Sound Shifts
part 11|31 pages
Ghanaian (Akan: Twi and Fante) Accent of English
part 12|31 pages
Liberian Accent of English