Lesson in Enunciation; Comprising a Course of Elementary Exercises and a Statement of Common Errors in Articulation, with Rules and Correct Usage in P - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... tutions; and until a change, in this respect, is effected in the modes of early instruction, a good enunciation must remain to be the fruit of individual exertion and of self-cultivation. To aid such efforts is the object, in part, of this manual; and the lessons and exercises prescribed in the preceding pages, although primarily designed for the elementary discipline of young learners, will also, it is hoped, serve the purposes of preparatory practice for public reading and speaking, if attention is given to the following explanations and suggestions. Distinct enunciation depends, as already mentioned, on the true and forcible action of the organs of speech. Regarded in connexion with the exercise of reading or speaking in public, it requires, 1st, the preparatory act of drawing a full supply of breath, that the lungs may be freely expanded, and a sufficient volume of air obtained for the production of strong and clear sound; 2d, a vigorous emission, or expulsion, of the breath, to give force and distinctness to the action of those organs which render sound artfculate; 3d, an energetic, deliberate, and exact execution, in the functions of the glottis, the palate, the tongue, the teeth, and the lips. It u from the combination of all these qualities of articulation, that the ear receives the true and perfect sound of every letter and syllable; and the mind, the exact form and meaning of every word; while a failure in any of these points, is attended by a weak and inefficient voice, or a defective and indistinct utterance. The qualities requisite to distinct enunciation naturally belong to all human beings in the possession of health, and under an adequate impulse of the mind: they are especially characteristic of the activity and...
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