Fwd: one more note re: LINGANTH Digest - 6 Feb 2010 to 7 Feb 2010 (#2010-17)

[Jess Bier]

I should add that the phrase "what English sounds like to foreigners" is
obviously a complete over-generalization, but the text is from the website
and didn't appear with the original video, which I think is from the '60s or
'70s.

You can see that the video is interesting on several levels in terms of the
interpretant, performativity, context of the English-language classroom, and
intertextual borrowing (to put it mildly) from rap music.

Jess


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From: Jess Bier <jessbier at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: LINGANTH Digest - 6 Feb 2010 to 7 Feb 2010 (#2010-17)
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Here is a different kind of example, a music video surtitled "What English
Sounds Like to Foreigners". Perhaps you've already seen it:

http://music.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/03

>From the website:

"An Italian singer wrote this song with gibberish to sound like English. If
you've ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is
it."

Jess



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