Several colleagues have suggested film and video clips that may be useful in teaching about language ideologies, including the value of standard and non-standard varieties, social stereotypes, and style shifting. This post includes several YouTube videos.
[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
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
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