The Social Semiotic Study of Vocal Acting – the Hollywood Golden Age Films as Examples

Zhang, Z

The Social Semiotic Study of Vocal Acting – the Hollywood Golden Age Films as Examples

Zhang, Z

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Citation:: Multimodal Communication, 2022
Issue Date:: 2022-05-02

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dc.contributor.author	Zhang, Z https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8905-3357
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-20T10:22:18Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-20T10:22:18Z
dc.date.issued	2022-05-02
dc.identifier.citation	Multimodal Communication, 2022
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/157570
dc.description.abstract	This study argues that voice is a communicative tool used in people’s daily life, and it can also be a vocal apparatus for actors to deliver acting functions in films. In this study, the author demonstrated how actors project voice qualities of pitch, loudness and intonation to achieve various communicative functions in vocal acting by investigating four selected Hollywood films. The speech analysis tool Praat was used to process actors’ voice qualities in the selected data to verify the argument. After investigation, this research discovered that actors can use voice qualities to represent information and emotion and indicate characters’ attitudes, relationships and situations. Moreover, this research revealed that actors’ voice is more dynamic than other acting participants (such as makeup, costume).
dc.language	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Multimodal Communication
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1515/mc-2021-0012
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dc.title	The Social Semiotic Study of Vocal Acting – the Hollywood Golden Age Films as Examples
dc.type	Journal Article
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Public Communication Program
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Abstract:

This study argues that voice is a communicative tool used in people’s daily life, and it can also be a vocal apparatus for actors to deliver acting functions in films. In this study, the author demonstrated how actors project voice qualities of pitch, loudness and intonation to achieve various communicative functions in vocal acting by investigating four selected Hollywood films. The speech analysis tool Praat was used to process actors’ voice qualities in the selected data to verify the argument. After investigation, this research discovered that actors can use voice qualities to represent information and emotion and indicate characters’ attitudes, relationships and situations. Moreover, this research revealed that actors’ voice is more dynamic than other acting participants (such as makeup, costume).

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