Regional Accents in Stage Speech (based on contemporary British cinema)

The study aims to analyze regional accents in the speech of British actors, used to convey the cultural and social characteristics of their characters in terms of phonetic accuracy aimed to achieve a high degree of plausibility. The study assesses the overall efficiency of the methods used by actors to master the necessary or desired accent and integrate it into the role. The research material includes samples of stage speech of famous British actors within the framework of such types of audiovisual narrative as a feature film and a series. The novelty lies in the fact that scientific literature offers no previous phonetic analysis of stage speech samples from the point of view of articulatory precision regarding a particular regional variant.