Abstract
Goal: To enhance the realism of various communication performances, students can attempt to adapt dialects appropriate for their characters.
Some performances require the use of Southwestern Dialect, commonplace in some areas of Texas, such as west, central, and rural Texas. Such was the case in the production Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, for which the author created this approach in her role as dialect coach for student actors. The overall aims of this approach were (a) that student actors would incorporate central traits of Southwestern Dialect into their vocal performances, (b) that these central traits would be consistent within student actors across scenes, as well as across student actors in their shared interactions, and that (c) native users of Southwestern Dialect would perceive the speech of the student actors as a reasonable approximation of authentic use of these central traits.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
34
Issue
2
First Page
115
Last Page
122
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Gunter, Cheryl D.
(2002)
"An Approach for Southwestern Dialect Instruction for Communication Performance,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 34:
No.
2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol34/iss2/8
Copyright
©2002 Iowa Communication Association
