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levels_of_meaning_is_selections.docxLevels of Meaning is Selections
Every selection, printed page – in fact every word- has two levels of meaning associated with it: its report or content level and its command or relationship level. It is the relationship level that concerns you as an interpreter, because this level helps to define the actual meaning of the word, phrase or passage. The relationship level helps you, the reader, decide how to interpret the literal content, because as an interpreter you are concerned not only with the dictionary meaning of the words, but also the ways these words sound when read aloud.
The spoken word is rarely neutral. It is always affected by vocal factors. Among these are speech intelligibility, time, volume and force, pitch and vocal quality. Effective interpreters are able to use these basic elements to help them communicate both the emotional and intellectual meanings of their selections. Trained readers use their vocal qualities to help their audiences appreciate and understand the content and mood-tones of their literature.
How can you as an interpreter acquire this sought after vocal flexibility and agility? You must unleash your voice – to play with it freely.
Freeing the Voice
Open your mouth wide and yawn. Try it again and really get into that yawn, stretch your arms and legs as an extension of it.
1. What happens in the back of your mouth as you yawn?
2. What happens to your eyes?
Try it again with your mouth closed. Keeping your lips together, try to attain an open feeling in the back of your mouth.
3. How do you feel now?
4. What has happened to the muscles in your throat and neck?
Sit straight up in your chair, place your hand on your stomach, inhale through your nose, drop your jaw as you did in the open-mouth yawn. Using your stomach muscles, push the sound “Ha” up from within you. Try this several times; aim to create a full, resonant, unrestrained tone.
5. What happens to the hand resting on your stomach when you inhale through your nose?
6. What surprised you about the tone of your voice?
Speech Intelligibility
It is essential that you are able to communicate accurately your author’s words to your audience. To do so, you must form the sounds of your script with precision and control. Interpreters must only play the sounds their authors supply. Slurring words will create sounds that should not be mixed. Performances will seem sloppy or lazy rather than clean and precise. Thus, interpreters need to develop distinct and accurate speech. To improve the way you form sounds and enunciate words, try the following exercise.
It is okay to look funny as you practice! Use your voice to bring life and meaning to this poem of nonsense words by Lewis Carroll. Remember; use the punctuation to guide your pauses and stops. If there is no punctuation at the end of a line of text; keep the thought and sound moving until you are guided to stop by punctuation. A comma means move along, not stop!
JABBERWOCKY
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long tme the manzome foe he sought – So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh, Callay!” He chortled in joy.
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
7. How do the sounds with it affect the sense of the poem?
8. How did your vocal reading add definition to the nonsense words?
Besides transferring the sounds of their selections accurately, interpreters should also add clarity to a work by varying the way they play the sounds within it. Interpreters then, share the hidden meanings of a piece of literature.
Repeat the poem using different emotions: 9. Describe the new sounds and discoveries you made for each emotion.
- Anger - Joy - Grief - Fear 10. What literary devices did you find in this poem? Give examples.
- Metaphor - Simile - Personification -Alliteration -Symbolis
