Designed by master dialect coach Ivan Borodin, this handbook serves as an introduction to the pronunciation shifts needed to speak with a convincing African accent.
This is a comprehensive workbook for actors, covering the key characteristics and profiles of a wide range of African accents of English.
Accents in the African Novel
This is a book about the relationships created by the use of language to convey knowledge, particularly in translation. The ideas it presents are evocative, thought-provoking and challenging at times.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, University of New Hampshire, course: English 550 - Graduate Studies in English Language, language: English, abstract: This scholarly ...
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Wuppertal, course: African American Culture as Resistance, language: English, abstract: In 1619 the first Black People were violently ...
“Impressively navigates the tricky boundaries that separate art and life, the haunted present and the haunting historical past..” New York Times A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the ...
This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole.
In English with an Accent Rosina Lippi-Green examines American attitudes towards language, exposing the way in which language is used to maintain and perpetuate social structures.
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