dialects in movies

[Rachel Shuttlesworth]

And don't forget Rockers for Jamaican dialects. Shows interesting
dialect variation on the island. I use it in my intro to linguistics.
Has atrocious subtitles, but those provide for great discussion
regarding what kinds of decisions are made in depicting/translating the
film's dialogue for the audience.

My dissertation (http://bama.ua.edu/~rshuttle/Diss/PDF/Diss.pdf) focuses
on depictions of Southern English in novels and films, so I've watched a
pile of films that contain supposedly "Southern" English. I'll work on a
summary of what I've found and post it shortly.
Rachel

Laurence Horn wrote:

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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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> At 6:59 PM -0500 2/21/05, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
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>>Don't forget "The Harder They Come" (Jamaican English, so basilectal the
>>first third of the movie has subtitles)
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> ditto "Cool Running", the movie about the Jamaican bobsled team

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