INFORMATION FOR INSTRUCTORS
Accents and Dialects for Stage and Screen is used in drama schools, conservatories, and university theatre departments around the world as a leading textbook in dialect instruction for actors. It has 24 dialects, 352 pages, and contains 12 CDs. E-mail Paul for a pdf preview copy of the book (sorry, but no preview of the all-important CDs is possible, and costs prohibit sending hard copy previews or desk copies.)
The list price is $99.95, but a 40% academic discount is available on orders placed via an institutional purchase order (usually either from your campus bookstore or your department). If ordered directly by the instructor (or his or her proxy) and pre-paid, the same discount is offered, allowing the instructor pass the the discount to the student, making the per copy cost for five or more copies $59.97 plus shipping. A free instructor's copy is included whichever ordering method is selected.
The book is best used in conjunction with the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA), which Paul founded in 1997, and where recordings by native speakers of all the dialects and accents in the book can be heard. Ideally, a media-equipped classroom will be the best venue for your dialect instruction class, where a high-speed internet connection allows you to play the IDEA recordings instantly.
Many dialect instructors include dialect-gathering as a class activity: the students find dialect speakers, record them, analyze their speech, and create monologues based on the interviews. Some instructors, particularly if they are also associate editors of IDEA, use this activity to create additional recordings for the archive. Your creation and submission of recordings that may be useful to other dialect researchers and students would be most welcome. Please see Becoming an Editor for details on this research and publishing opportunity.
Another powerful addition to Paul’s instructional services are the interactive charts of the International Phonetic Association. The graphics were designed by Professor Eric Armstrong of the University of York in Toronto, while Paul voiced all the sounds. You will find the charts on the IPA demo page (where you may order them in CD-ROM version if you prefer); and on Armstrong’s website.