How to develop your speaking voice - Brossura

Major, Clare Tree

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1154565335 ISBN 13: 9781154565331

Casa editrice: General Books LLC, 2012

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1921 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI EMOTIONAL INTERPRETATION IN the final illustration of the previous chapter you discovered that the inflection which brought particular stress to bear on any one word is the downward inflection, the inflection which causes the voice to lower its pitch. This may not mean an entire dropping of the inflection as it is used in connection with a period. It may be, and almost invariably is, except at the end of a sentence, what is termed a "wavy" inflection, an inflection which runs down on the word to give it proper emphasis, but which begins its upward return on the very end of the word, so that the following word is spoken at a distinctly higher and rising pitch in order to carry on the thought. In expressive, or interpretive reading, which is the only sort of reading which is worth listening to, (even the reading of stock quotations should be read with inflections and consequent expression), the reader can be guided very little by the generally taught and extremely crude rules of punctuated reading. To pause only at commas, and to keep the inflection up until a period is reached, is to read stupidly and without meaning or feeling. This is particularly true in poetry. At best there are but few words in a selection which really carry its meaning--the rest are padding, words used to fill in the meter or to make the sentence conform to grammatical form. These few words should receive either a direct downward inflection, or a wavy downward one, in accordance with their varying importance in expressing the dominant thought. This is so in absolute independence of punctuation form. Examine the following little verse, which could scarcely be simpler, yet which affords an excellent illustration of this use of inflection apart from punctuation: These hearts of...

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• Editore: General Books LLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1154565335
• ISBN 13: 9781154565331
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 24