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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/12/2012 3:46 PM, Harold Schiffman
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CACqQ=kL8JSLT-1X+HSJLAzxcqcooUSkv+9aQVo8kShSRCmPMdA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">All:<br>
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I have had exactly three responses to my query to the list as to
whether the cartoons page is something people are interested in
i.e. as they pertain to language policy. All three have been
positive, but that's not exactly an overwhelming vote of
confidence.<br>
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Be that as it may, I decided to link a page to the cartoons page
from my website for a course on "Language and Popular Culture"
that I taught before retiring. In that course I encouraged
students to look at how language is portrayed/used/manipulated in
popular culture, such as cartoons, and one sample I gave them was
from a comic strip called "Pearls before Swine" that, among other
things, depicts Crocs (crocodiles) as speaking some kind of
non-standard dialect of English. I encouraged my students to look
at similar depictions in order to understand how this kind of
"popular culture" represented ideas about language. Since the
course was a writing course, they had to write a research paper on
this or a similar topic. <br>
<br>
Anyway since the response to my query about the value of cartoons
was so overwhelmingly positive (!) I decided to also share with
you my thoughts about the crocs.<br>
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In case you're wondering, the URL for the cartoons page is <a
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href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/cartoons/cartoons.html">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/cartoons/cartoons.html</a><br>
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Enjoy!<br>
<br>
HS<br clear="all">
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Harold F. Schiffman<br>
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Professor Emeritus of <br>
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>
Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br>
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Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>
Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br>
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HI Hal, I am interested in your examples of language use in
cartoons. I never know when they might be useful to cite, and they
are fun to find out about.<br>
So keep sending them. regards, Carol MS<br>
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