Race and language
AAA video Race: Are You So Different?
AAA video Race: Are You So Different?
This clip from the TV show Friends demonstrates a media representation of male and female interactional styles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGoC8FTLKSI&feature=related [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGoC8FTLKSI&feature=related[/youtube]
This website demonstrates regional variation in pronunciation with examples of how people in different parts of the US pronounce the word “bought.” http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/resources/socioling/boughtmap/index.html Creole, Gullah* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ… Read More »Regional variation in pronunciation/ dialect map
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ[/youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ John Baugh discusses linguistic profiling (see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KCL97s1lJg). [youtube]https://youtu.be/3KCL97s1lJg[/youtube] It also discusses the creolist theory of the origins of African American English. Around… Read More »Linguistic profiling, history of AAVE, Gullah
This video shows an example of the endangered Smith Island dialect of English
You can use this clip from the George Lopez TV show to analyze code-switching.
My Fair Lady – Eliza Doolittle’s Cockney Accent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZqESl-0OkA [UPDATE 1/23/2016: The video originally linked to is no longer available. Try the clip below from… Read More »Standard v. non-standard English in My Fair Lady
Here’s a send up on the ambiguities of “reasonable suspicion” and “illegality” from the Daily Show from May 2011, apropos of Arizona’s immigration law: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-may-6-2010/suspicious-behavior-on-cinco-de-mayo This clip would… Read More »“Reasonable suspicion” and “illegality” in the Daily Show
In “Lesbian bar talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo” Hideko Abe shows how identity positions are constructed and claimed through language use. One passage, which shows how use of the word futsuu (ordinary) includes homosexual and heterosexual subjects in the same category, bears additional analysis.
In this excerpt, Cho talks about race and language: being asked to speak to viewers “in your native language,” being treated like a visiting exchange… Read More »Margaret Cho – I’m the One I Want
In this clip from I Love Lucy, Lucy is intent on teaching her future child to speak “perfect English”, and she criticizes her husband Ricky Ricardo’s… Read More »Perfect English in I Love Lucy
Jimmy Kimmel outsources Herman Cain jokes to an Indian call center. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9BzlfI6Mj8. This is a good clip to show with Deborah Cameron’s (2000) piece on call… Read More »Jimmy Kimmel outsources Herman Cain jokes to an Indian call center
In the trailer for the movie The Mexican, Brad Pitt says “el trucko” “towno” and “muy muy important.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apCvmjRDAMw [UPDATE 1/23/2016: The URL originally linked to… Read More »The Mexican movie trailer
President Obama sings in a nod to Al Green during a speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6uHR90Sq6k [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6uHR90Sq6k[/youtube]
In this interview for ESPN Deportes, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski attempts to speak some Spanish and ends the interview by saying, “Yo soy fiesta”… Read More »Rob Gronkowski “Yo soy fiesta”
In this clip, John Connor gives the T-800 a lesson in Mock Spanish: “no problemo,” “hasta la vista,” “dickwad” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNo4yehpezc Here the Terminator uses the Mock Spanish… Read More »Mock Spanish in Terminator 2
On the subject of constructing Latin American immigrants as inherintly “illegal,” here is a great clip from a 2010 Colbert Report show– http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/361456/october-07-2010/indecision-2010—revenge-of-the-fallen—fearstock-com If the… Read More »2010 Colbert Report on creating fear through images
This December 2011 Media Matters article reports on controversy over use of the word “illegals” by former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller. The… Read More »NY Times Drops “Illegals,” As Fox Continues To Cling To Slur
This article reports on the Associated Press controversy regarding term “illegal immigrant” in news reporting. AP deputy standards editor David Minthorn is quoted as saying, “Alternatives like undocumented worker,… Read More »The Associated Press Updates Its Stylebook, Still Clings to I-Word
This anti-illegal alien site contains rants about illegal aliens and compares them to thieves, invaders, etc: http://www.illegalaliens.us/ Some of the more interesting links on the site… Read More »Anti-illegal alien website