dialects in movies

[Beverly Flanigan]

Please do, Rachel--I remember your very interesting talk at SECOL (or was
it LAVIS?)!

At 10:11 AM 2/22/2005, you wrote:
>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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>>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>>Subject:      Re: dialects in movies
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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)
>>
>>
>>ditto "Cool Running", the movie about the Jamaican bobsled team
>
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