dialects in movies

[Jonathan Lighter]

Uhhm...no,.

  JL

urszula majchrzak <umajchrzak at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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thanks, Greg... I'll take a close look at those movies. Some I've seen, but
have to go back and analyze them more closely. I sure should have fun :-)!!
I haven't seen Beowulf yet, Jonathan... Is it good...?
-Thanks for help!

-Ula


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Gregory McNamee
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> Ula,
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> You'll find plenty of regional stereotyping via dialect and accent in
> films today, as well as in the past. I think of > Thou> as a prime example of accent meant to convey various levels of
> stupidity/gullibility. Farther back, is another film in
> which the heavy has a decided brogue as opposed to the near-flat
> affect of the other English-speaking characters. > Dress> contrasts regional and urban African American dialects, and > in Smoke> plays with Chicano English. Puerto Rican English meets New
> Yorkese in , and accents are fitted to characters
> closely in .
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> When I think of dialect/accent films, I think immediately of
> , a wonderful orchestra of European and American accents.
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> I'm not sure how any of these will fit your thesis, but they're all
> very well worth watching. Good luck!
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> Greg
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