[lg policy] Cartoons again to HS

Tue Nov 13 17:22:09 UTC 2012

I've always been worried about  filling up people's email boxes but since you ask for feedback Hal I too think the cartoons are great - the one with Uncle Sam asking the fortune teller the future and her reply that she doesn't know because she doesn't speak Chinese has gone down well with audiences all over the world!

Best wishes and many thanks for all your activity with the LG policy list which is such a great resource for teaching and for research

Chris

Professor Chris Kennedy
English Language and Applied Linguistics Division
University of Birmingham
England

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From: lgpolicy-list-bounces at groups.sas.upenn.edu<mailto:lgpolicy-list-bounces at groups.sas.upenn.edu> [lgpolicy-list-bounces at groups.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Ann Anderson Evans [annevans123 at gmail.com]
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Well, make that four responses.  These are terrific.  I have posted them on my Facebook page and in my  blog.  Some things are choked down a little better when lubricated with laughter.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:05 PM, myerssc3 at msu.edu<mailto:myerssc3 at msu.edu> <myerssc3 at msu.edu<mailto:myerssc3 at msu.edu>> wrote:
On 11/12/2012 3:46 PM, Harold Schiffman wrote:
All:

I have had exactly three responses to my query to the list as to whether the cartoons page is something people are interested in i.e. as they pertain to language policy.  All three have been positive, but that's not exactly an overwhelming vote of confidence.

Be that as it may, I decided to link a page to the cartoons page from my website for a course on "Language and Popular Culture" that I taught before retiring.  In that course I encouraged students to look at how language is portrayed/used/manipulated in popular culture, such as cartoons, and one sample I gave them was from a comic strip called "Pearls before Swine" that, among other things, depicts Crocs (crocodiles) as speaking some kind of non-standard dialect of English.  I encouraged my students to look at similar depictions in order to understand how this kind of "popular culture" represented ideas about language.  Since the course was a writing course, they had to write a research paper on this or a similar topic.

Anyway since the response to my query about the value of cartoons was so overwhelmingly positive (!) I decided to also share with you my thoughts about the crocs.

In case you're wondering, the URL for the cartoons page is http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/cartoons/cartoons.html

Enjoy!

HS

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HI Hal, I am interested in your examples of language use in cartoons.  I never know when they might be useful to cite, and they are fun to find out about.
So keep sending them.   regards, Carol MS

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