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Author Herman, Lewis, 1905-1966.

Title Foreign dialects : a manual for actors, directors, and writers / by Lewis Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman
Published New York : Theatre Arts Books, [1958?]
[1958? c1943]

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 MELB  792.028 HER  AVAILABLE
Description 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents How to use the manual -- The Cockney dialect -- The British dialect -- Australian slang -- The Bermuda dialect -- The dialect of India -- The Irish dialect -- The Scottish dialect -- The German dialect -- The French dialect -- The Italian dialect -- The Spanish dialect -- The Mexican dialect -- The Filipino dialect -- The Portuguese dialect -- The Japanese dialect -- The Chinese dialect -- Pigdin English -- The Hawaiian dialect -- Beche le mar -- Australian pigdin -- The Swedish dialect -- The Norwegian dialect -- The Russian dialect -- The middle European dialects -- The Lithuanian dialect -- The Jugoslav dialect -- The Czech dialect -- The Finnish dialect -- The Hungarian dialect -- The Polish dialect -- The Greek dialect -- The Yiddish dialect
Notes First published in 1943 under title: Manual of foreign dialects for radio, stage, and screen
Subject Acting.
English language -- Dialects.
English language -- Phonetics.
English language -- Pronunciation by foreign speakers.
Ethnopsychology.
National characteristics.
Author Herman, Marguerite Shalett.
LC no. 58010332
ISBN 0878300481
9780878300488
Other Titles Manual of foreign dialects for radio, stage, screen