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

Tue Dec 13 04:34:18 UTC 2011

Here are some clips from a playlist I created that features clips
concerning the English-Only movement here in the United States:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEPh_KlTyII&list=PL50C040C00C62A056&index=1&feature=plpp_video

Included are some of the more noteworthy commercials, legislative
proceedings and even songs about 'English-Only.'  There are also a few
titles in the playlist on bilingual education and so these would compliment
the video "Speaking in Tongues" suggested by Inma earlier.

Hope this finds you well,
Dave

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Angela Reyes <arreye at hunter.cuny.edu>wrote:

> Just wanted to add to the list two films by Jean-Pierre Gorin: Poto and
> Cabengo (1980), which is about inventive language among twin girls in San
> Diego, and My Crasy Life (1992), which focuses on language use among Samoan
> gangs in Long Beach. The latter is also ethnographically fascinating
> because it's reminiscent of Jean Rouch's participatory and slippery
> fiction/documentary approach. Also, a few linguists/linguistic
> anthropologists are mentioned in the films (some by a talking car!). Here
> are descriptions:
>
> POTO AND CABENGO (1980)
> Grace and Virginia are young San Diego twins who speak unlike anyone else.
> With little exposure to the outside world, the two girls have created a
> private form of communication that’s an amalgam of the distinctive English
> dialects they hear at home. Jean-Pierre Gorin’s polyphonic nonfiction
> investigation of this phenomenon looks at the family from a variety of
> angles, with the director taking on the role of a sort of sociological
> detective. It’s a delightful and absorbing study of words and faces, mass
> media and personal isolation, and America’s odd margins.
>
> MY CRASY LIFE (1992)
> Jean-Pierre Gorin’s gripping and unique film about a Samoan street gang in
> Long Beach, California, is, like other works by the filmmaker, a probing
> look at a closed community with its own rules, rituals, and language. Part
> observational documentary, part fiction invisibly scripted and shaped by
> the director, My Crasy Life, which won a special jury prize at Sundance, is
> an enthralling and intensely focused contemplation of violence and
> dislocation.
>
> Angie
> --
> Angela Reyes, Ph.D.
> Acting Deputy Chair and Associate Professor of Linguistics
> Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
> Department of English
> Hunter College, City University of New York
> 695 Park Avenue
> New York, NY 10065
> Email: arreye at hunter.cuny.edu
> Phone: (212) 772-5076
> Fax: (212) 772-5411
> http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/english/angela-reyes/angela-reyes
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:50:44 +0100
> >From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group <
> LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org> (on behalf of Martha Karrebæk <
> martha at HUM.KU.DK>)
> >Subject: Re: AV tools for teaching intro to ling anth (esp. films,
> youtubes, etc)
> >To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> >
> >There is also a fantastic clip in Stephen Fry's Planet Word where (as I
> recall it) Fry interviews a member of the French Academy on the issue of
> language death. Fry wants to hear if the Academy does not find it
> problematic or at least thought provoking that many indigenous languages in
> France disappear. Maybe Fry even wants the Academy member to recognize that
> the French Academy could do something to prevent this and help the
> endangered languages survive. In stead the academy member answers that he
> does not pity the development and that he believes that it is the best
> solution in that the people who used to speak the indigenous languages are
> lucky in that they get the best and most beautiful language in exchange for
> the useless one they used to speak.
> >
> >This clip can be used for a range of discussions on language, ideology &
> language death.
> >
> >Martha
> >
> >Den 12/12/2011 kl. 19.03 skrev Janina Fenigsen:
> >
> >> Here goes my list of YouTube clips:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvul3DC4l4E signing for “deaf”
> -derogatory
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ&feature=related John
> Baugh’s on
> >> language, prejudice, ling profiling, AfAm origin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9x6kMO-mbo court proceedings with
> Spanish
> >> translator, used to illustrate Hymes’ SPEAKING model
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=small+talk&search_type=&aq=foffice
> >> small talk parody, used for participation structure illustration
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8561sf6Bg7s cavemen small talk
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDtVc3swF0U&feature=related small talk
> on
> >> Titanic (spoof)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoR0U9l_QGQ  Mickey Mouse, boat
> christening
> >> ceremony, used for performative illustration
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BcdY_wSklo&feature=related Pinker on
> >> swearing
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqwsYErMGQE&feature=related no “should”
> in
> >> Mende, used to illustrate lexicalized modality
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLKsZ3_8qLg US Army Language and culture
> >> tactical training
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67V8qWQd_EM the creation of a sign
> sequence
> >> for “Obama” in manual language (some iconicity)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfDWQG47pAQ, nonverbal communication
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=274_VdeckAU&feature=player_embedded
> >>
> >> Obama’s presidential oath, used to illustrate performativity conditions
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8IvWp_lzUo Iranian politeness
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.slate.com/id/2264198/  (Hollywood multilingualism, from
> Kerim)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/19/doctor.laura.caller/index.html?hpt=C1
> >> Laura Slesinger n-word
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/08/18/netiquette.ask.date/index.html?iref=NS1
> >> asking out etiquette
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2011/04/14/crowley.silent.stance.cnn?hpt=C2
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> “silent” speech
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewPburLEZyY Colbert Congressional
> Hearing-
> >> heteroglossia
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.theonion.com/video/incomprehensible-shouting-named-official-us-langua,19417/
> >> new official language
> >>
> >> Good luck,
> >>
> >> Janina
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Jennifer Dickinson <
> >> Jennifer.Dickinson at uvm.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Alejandro,
> >>> I really like Multilingual Hong Kong which is a great video on
> >>> codeswitching that the students also seem to like.
> >>>
> >>> From a series by Oliver Sacks Parts of "The Rajin' Cajun" can be used
> for
> >>> a very simple intro to ASL but it also deals with related communication
> >>> issues.
> >>>
> >>> On YouTube the Swedish Chef is good for discussing mock language,
> >>> including an episode that discusses mock Japanese.  There are also
> some old
> >>> Bugs Bunny cartoons that show WWII era mock German.
> >>>
> >>> And then there's this piece which is good for a day when you just want
> to
> >>> give everyone a laugh:
> >>>
> >>> http://youtu.be/BZXcRqFmFa8
> >>>
> >>> J.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 12/12/2011 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
> >>>>
> >>>>
>

-- 
Dave Paulson
PhD Student & University Fellow
Temple University, Department of Anthropology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States