Linguistic Anthropology DVDs?

Alexandre Enkerli enkerli at gmail.com
Sat May 13 16:01:36 UTC 2006


Colleagues,

Somewhat surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be a list of relevant DVDs 
in the linganth archives. People have talked about movie moments, which 
can be great for regular classroom use, but how about more extensive 
movies dealing specifically with linguistic topics?
An interesting, though old, language movie is /American Tongues/. It 
doesn't seem to be out on DVD but it's a real classic. Some people talk 
about Melyn Bragg's /Adventure of English/ which sounds well-made and 
entertaining. But what about movies about linguistic diversity 
worldwide? Or some other language topics?
Texas Tech has a list of movies on languages and linguistics which does 
include American Tongues and Adventure of English:
http://library.ttu.edu/ul/subjects/humanities/english/language_videos.php
This list seems to have interesting items but it'd be useful to have 
colleagues talk about their experiences showing some of these.

Thanks in advance for your input!

Alexandre Enkerli, lecturer
Department of Anthropology
Tufts University



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