dialects in movies

[urszula majchrzak]

Thank you... The archives do contain some interesting bits of information
:-)...

-Ula

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:15 AM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
wrote:

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> The role of dialects in movies, or their presentation, was batted about
> here in (it seems) 1999 and again in 2005.  Check the ADS-L Archives -- I
> used "dialects movies" in the subject box -- there may be other
> possibilites.
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> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: urszula majchrzak <umajchrzak at gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:11 pm
> Subject: dialects in movies
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> > Hi,
> > I'm writing a B.A. paper on American dialects in the movies. More
> > specifically, I'm searching for the use of stereotypes based on
> > dialects and
> > trying to determine how much the use of dialects in the movies
> > influence our
> > view of people.
> > I was wondering if someone could suggest a selection of movies I
> > should look
> > into.
> > Would be grateful for any insight!
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Ula
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