6.1 King's Speech

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5 Terms

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GAP

G- written script for performance / filming/ production

A- actors, subsequent audience, fans of Colin Firth etc

P- to entratain / inform

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Voices

Informal VS formal, conflicting / impatient, impolite/ challenging, direct/ blunt

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Context

  • 2010 oscar award winning

  • Prince Albert / King George VI

  • (1895 - 1952)

  • 1930s

  • Speech impediment

  • Logue’s journal

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Techniques ( 1 - 6)

  • “know any jokes?” —> elliptical phrasing, turn-talking/ adjency pairs = deliberately informal

  • “Silence. They stare at each other” —> face threatening acts + stage directions

  • “Cuppa tea?” —> elision/ elliptical phrasing

  • “Dr Logue”, “Call me Lionel” —> juxtaposition

  • “Please call me Lionel” —> Imperative but softened

  • “I prefer doctor”, “I prefer Lionel” —> syntactical parallelism

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Techniques (7 - 12)

  • “Only my family uses that” —> declarative + personal references

  • “ In here” —> adverbial justifies lack of deference

  • “we’re equals” , “were equals” —> repetition of subordinate (removed contraction)

  • “ home with my wife” —> informal/ profanity

  • “Physicians” —> impact of noun phrase

  • “ My castle, my rules”—> “My” = possessive pronoun, connotations of absolute power