Speech as Active Communication 3

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Subject guarantor

Irena PULICAROVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Irena PULICAROVÁ

Department

The subject provides Department of Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy

Contents

Systematic work from class to class and intensive preparations at home on a selected text or texts.

Linked to Speech as Active Communication 2 - dependent on talent.

Learning outcomes

• Discovering one's own speaking voice, and how to work with it.
• Discovering one's spoken English, how to work with it.
• Learning to listen and. hear
• Learning to speak with sense and logic.
• Learning to speak expressively and with expression .
• Learning to speak with someone (and with oneself).

The voicework is based on selected texts in English.

Prerequisites and other requirements

Functional listening skills, and ability for functional, speech creation.

• Communicativeness.
• Interest.
• Basic talent and education.

Linked to Speech as Active Communication 2

Literature

Berry, Cicely: Voice and the Actor. New York: Wiley Publishing, 1973.

Donnellan, Declan: The Actor and the Target. London: Nick Hern Books 2005.

Gutekunst, Christina and Gillet, John: Voice into Acting. London: Bloomsbury 2014.

Houseman, Barbara: Finding your Voice, London: Nick Hern Books 2002.

Ong, Walter J.: Orality and Literacy and technologizing of the word. London, New York: Routledge 2012.

Rodenburg, Patsy: The Actor Speaks. London: Methuen Drama 1997.

Rodenburg, Patsy: The Need for Words: Voice and the Text. London: Methuen Drama 2005.

Vyskočil, Ivan and company: (Inter)acting with the inner partner. (Edited by Michal Čunderle and Alex Komlosi), translated by Alexander Komlosi. Praha: Brkola 2011.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on: class participation, attendance, homework (75%), final presentations, and discussions on recommended readings.

Schedule for winter semester 2025/2026:

Schedule for summer semester 2025/2026:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Authorial Acting (M.A.) (Required subjects)