AV tools for teaching intro to ling anth (esp. films, youtubes, etc)

[Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway]

I usually use a lot of YouTube clips. A couple of favorites are:
- excerpts from Grover (near/far, etc) on Sesame Street when talking about
deixis
- SNL "girlfriend voice" to talk about social indexicality/speech as a way
of occupying different social roles. It's stupid but funny.
 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvul3DC4l4E as a funny way to illustrate
that iconicity does not mean transparency, ie the non-mutual exclusivity of
different kinds of semiosis.


On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Steven Black <stevepblack at gmail.com>wrote:

> Alejandro,
>
> A couple timeless classics:
> Crosstalk (John Gumperz)
> American Tongues
>
> Some newer ones:
> Do You Speak American
> The Linguists
>
> Best,
> Steve Black
>
> On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Alejandro Paz wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm teaching a second-year introduction to ling anth for the first time.
> The sister courses in socio-cultural here use a great deal of AV material,
> along with the lectures and tutorial discussions. I'd be very grateful for
> any recommendations for useful movies, youtube clips, and the like that
> others have found useful to teach ling anth topics. For example, I have
> found the comedian Russell Peters is useful for introducing students to
> ethnicity and race with language. There's a youtube clip from one of his
> shows on "cultural names" that works well.
> >
> > I have a feeling that this has been asked before, and if so, feel free
> to point me to the archived discussion. If not, I'm happy to collate the
> answers that I get into a blog post or the like.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Alejandro
> >
> > --
> > ---------------------------------------------------- Alejandro Paz
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Humanities University of Toronto
> Scarborough Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics University of
> Toronto -----------------------------------------------------
>



-- 
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College