Speech as Active Communication 1

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Předmět zajišťuje Department of Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy

Contents

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

Learning outcomes

• Recognize one's spoken word and use it.
• Recognize one's spoken Czech and use it.
• Learn to hear and listen.
• Learn to speak in the sense and logic of things
• Learn to speak with expression and expressively.
• Learn to speak to someone (and to oneself).

This all based on appropriately selected texts, predominantly of Czech provenience.

Prerequisites and other requirements

• Functional speech listening skills and ability in functional speech.
• Communicativeness.
• Interest.
• Basic talent and education.

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 (75%), paper and disucssions over the recommended readings.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans

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