Abstract
In his memoir, Wordstruck, Robert MacNeil affirms his love of the English language in all its forms: from the Canadian English he learned as a schoolboy in Halifax to Laurence Olivier's Shakespearean cadences to the voices of the BBC during World War II, from Cockney to West Indian to Texan to American black idioms. Throughout his life, the sounds of the spoken language have struck MacNeil - as a child hearing his mother read, as an adolescent actor, as a student of T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas, and as a broadcast journalist.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
21
Issue
2
First Page
43
Last Page
48
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Jensen, Marvin D.
(1989)
"Teaching Oral Language Appreciation,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 21:
No.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol21/iss2/3
Copyright
©1989 Iowa Communication Association
