AV tools for teaching intro to ling anth (esp. films, youtubes, etc)

Tue Dec 13 22:56:10 UTC 2011

Add this to the collection...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57342485-503544/attack-ad-shows-mitt-romney-speaking-french/

 -- Paul

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Dave Paulson <dave.paulson at temple.edu>wrote:

Here are some clips from a playlist I created that features clips
> concerning the English-Only movement here in the United States:
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEPh_KlTyII&list=PL50C040C00C62A056&index=1&feature=plpp_video
>
> Included are some of the more noteworthy commercials, legislative
> proceedings and even songs about 'English-Only.'  There are also a few
> titles in the playlist on bilingual education and so these would compliment
> the video "Speaking in Tongues" suggested by Inma earlier.
>
> Hope this finds you well,
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Angela Reyes <arreye at hunter.cuny.edu
> >wrote:
>
> > Just wanted to add to the list two films by Jean-Pierre Gorin: Poto and
> > Cabengo (1980), which is about inventive language among twin girls in San
> > Diego, and My Crasy Life (1992), which focuses on language use among
> Samoan
> > gangs in Long Beach. The latter is also ethnographically fascinating
> > because it's reminiscent of Jean Rouch's participatory and slippery
> > fiction/documentary approach. Also, a few linguists/linguistic
> > anthropologists are mentioned in the films (some by a talking car!). Here
> > are descriptions:
> >
> > POTO AND CABENGO (1980)
> > Grace and Virginia are young San Diego twins who speak unlike anyone
> else.
> > With little exposure to the outside world, the two girls have created a
> > private form of communication that’s an amalgam of the distinctive
> English
> > dialects they hear at home. Jean-Pierre Gorin’s polyphonic nonfiction
> > investigation of this phenomenon looks at the family from a variety of
> > angles, with the director taking on the role of a sort of sociological
> > detective. It’s a delightful and absorbing study of words and faces, mass
> > media and personal isolation, and America’s odd margins.
> >
> > MY CRASY LIFE (1992)
> > Jean-Pierre Gorin’s gripping and unique film about a Samoan street gang
> in
> > Long Beach, California, is, like other works by the filmmaker, a probing
> > look at a closed community with its own rules, rituals, and language.
> Part
> > observational documentary, part fiction invisibly scripted and shaped by
> > the director, My Crasy Life, which won a special jury prize at Sundance,
> is
> > an enthralling and intensely focused contemplation of violence and
> > dislocation.
> >
> > Angie
> > --
> > Angela Reyes, Ph.D.
> > Acting Deputy Chair and Associate Professor of Linguistics
> > Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
> > Department of English
> > Hunter College, City University of New York
> > 695 Park Avenue
> > New York, NY 10065
> > Email: arreye at hunter.cuny.edu
> > Phone: (212) 772-5076
> > Fax: (212) 772-5411
> > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/english/angela-reyes/angela-reyes
> >
> >
> > ---- Original message ----
> > >Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:50:44 +0100
> > >From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group <
> > LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org> (on behalf of Martha Karrebæk <
> > martha at HUM.KU.DK>)
> > >Subject: Re: AV tools for teaching intro to ling anth (esp. films,
> > youtubes, etc)
> > >To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> > >
> > >There is also a fantastic clip in Stephen Fry's Planet Word where (as I
> > recall it) Fry interviews a member of the French Academy on the issue of
> > language death. Fry wants to hear if the Academy does not find it
> > problematic or at least thought provoking that many indigenous languages
> in
> > France disappear. Maybe Fry even wants the Academy member to recognize
> that
> > the French Academy could do something to prevent this and help the
> > endangered languages survive. In stead the academy member answers that he
> > does not pity the development and that he believes that it is the best
> > solution in that the people who used to speak the indigenous languages
> are
> > lucky in that they get the best and most beautiful language in exchange
> for
> > the useless one they used to speak.
> > >
> > >This clip can be used for a range of discussions on language, ideology &
> > language death.
> > >
> > >Martha
> > >
> > >Den 12/12/2011 kl. 19.03 skrev Janina Fenigsen:
> > >
> > >> Here goes my list of YouTube clips:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvul3DC4l4E signing for “deaf”
> > -derogatory
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ&feature=related John
> > Baugh’s on
> > >> language, prejudice, ling profiling, AfAm origin
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9x6kMO-mbo court proceedings with
> > Spanish
> > >> translator, used to illustrate Hymes’ SPEAKING model
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=small+talk&search_type=&aq=foffice
> > >> small talk parody, used for participation structure illustration
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8561sf6Bg7s cavemen small talk
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDtVc3swF0U&feature=related small talk
> > on
> > >> Titanic (spoof)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoR0U9l_QGQ  Mickey Mouse, boat
> > christening
> > >> ceremony, used for performative illustration
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BcdY_wSklo&feature=related Pinker on
> > >> swearing
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqwsYErMGQE&feature=related no
> “should”
> > in
> > >> Mende, used to illustrate lexicalized modality
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLKsZ3_8qLg US Army Language and
> culture
> > >> tactical training
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67V8qWQd_EM the creation of a sign
> > sequence
> > >> for “Obama” in manual language (some iconicity)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfDWQG47pAQ, nonverbal communication
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=274_VdeckAU&feature=player_embedded
> > >>
> > >> Obama’s presidential oath, used to illustrate performativity
> conditions
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8IvWp_lzUo Iranian politeness
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.slate.com/id/2264198/  (Hollywood multilingualism, from
> > Kerim)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/19/doctor.laura.caller/index.html?hpt=C1
> > >> Laura Slesinger n-word
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/08/18/netiquette.ask.date/index.html?iref=NS1
> > >> asking out etiquette
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2011/04/14/crowley.silent.stance.cnn?hpt=C2
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> “silent” speech
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewPburLEZyY Colbert Congressional
> > Hearing-
> > >> heteroglossia
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> http://www.theonion.com/video/incomprehensible-shouting-named-official-us-langua,19417/
> > >> new official language
> > >>
> > >> Good luck,
> > >>
> > >> Janina
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Jennifer Dickinson <
> > >> Jennifer.Dickinson at uvm.edu> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Alejandro,
> > >>> I really like Multilingual Hong Kong which is a great video on
> > >>> codeswitching that the students also seem to like.
> > >>>
> > >>> From a series by Oliver Sacks Parts of "The Rajin' Cajun" can be used
> > for
> > >>> a very simple intro to ASL but it also deals with related
> communication
> > >>> issues.
> > >>>
> > >>> On YouTube the Swedish Chef is good for discussing mock language,
> > >>> including an episode that discusses mock Japanese.  There are also
> > some old
> > >>> Bugs Bunny cartoons that show WWII era mock German.
> > >>>
> > >>> And then there's this piece which is good for a day when you just
> want
> > to
> > >>> give everyone a laugh:
> > >>>
> > >>> http://youtu.be/BZXcRqFmFa8
> > >>>
> > >>> J.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 12/12/2011 10:20 AM, Alejandro Paz wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Hi everyone,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I'm teaching a second-year introduction to ling anth for the first
> > time.
> > >>>> The sister courses in socio-cultural here use a great deal of AV
> > material,
> > >>>> along with the lectures and tutorial discussions. I'd be very
> > grateful for
> > >>>> any recommendations for useful movies, youtube clips, and the like
> > that
> > >>>> others have found useful to teach ling anth topics. For example, I
> > have
> > >>>> found the comedian Russell Peters is useful for introducing students
> > to
> > >>>> ethnicity and race with language. There's a youtube clip from one of
> > his
> > >>>> shows on "cultural names" that works well.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I have a feeling that this has been asked before, and if so, feel
> > free to
> > >>>> point me to the archived discussion. If not, I'm happy to collate
> the
> > >>>> answers that I get into a blog post or the like.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks in advance!
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Alejandro
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Dave Paulson
> PhD Student & University Fellow
> Temple University, Department of Anthropology
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
> United States
>