Dialects in Film Revisited

[Beth Simon]

Someone else included this on a list of films, so I finally got around
to watching it *

Six Degrees of Separation seems like an excellent instance of
performing what is perceived as (fairly) contemporary elitist NY upper
class

beth

beth lee simon, ph.d.
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indiana university purdue university
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>>> tb5fab at GMAIL.COM 9/6/2005 10:26:05 AM >>>
Oh-- an addendum-- I'm thinking of American dialects here. Thanks!

Patti

On 9/6/05, Patti Kurtz <tb5fab at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone. We talked about the authenticity of dialect in film
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> spring. I'm wondering now if anyone can suggest examples of films
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> dialects in ways that either convey prestige (that is the character
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> the dialect is upper class, respected etc) and films that use dialect

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> enforce negative prestige (to put down the character).
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> I don't have a certain dialect in mind, although southern seems to be

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> often in this respect.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Patti Kurtz
> Assistant Professor, English
> Minot State University
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