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

[Steve Bialostok]

Interesting article in the NY Times about the politics of identifying who and who is not bilingual. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/are-we-really-monolingual.html?src=recg



________________________________
 From: Elizabeth Spreng <elispreng at AOL.COM>
To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG 
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: AV tools for teaching intro to ling anth (esp. films, youtubes, etc)
 
Hello all,

I have found some more amusing clips that are fun bilingual  
commentaries.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfH3BtWR-tA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu0q0d9jkpI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=DH5sGa5WJWs

All best,
Elizabeth

-----Original Message-----
From: galey modan <gmodan at GMAIL.COM>
To: LINGANTH <LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 7:45 am
Subject: Re: AV tools for teaching intro to ling anth (esp. films,  
youtubes, etc)


And if you want something super recent, here's Newt Gingrich's Romney
attack ad about (among other things) how Romney speaks French:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyFaWhygzjQ

Galey

2012/1/14 Elizabeth Spreng <elispreng at aol.com>

> Hello all,
> As the break here is quickly drawing to an end, I have been watching
> films, dare I say it, like a mad woman. There are two that have really
> blown me away because of their applicability to a number of classes  
and one
> that I just feel is wonderful to begin/continue a discussion of race.
>
> 1. Europe in One Room
> This is a bonus DVD packaged with Fishkin's book "When the People  
Speak."
> 2. September 11.
> 11 films embodying perspectives from around the word.
> 3. Schwarzfahrer (Translated title "Black Rider," Colloquial "Driver
> without a Licence or in this case "Rider without a Ticket."
> Set in Berlin, a beautiful black and white short on racism (won an  
Academy
> Award). It was included on a compilation called Short "Invention" but  
also
> on another film "Inch' Allah Dimanche" (which I have not watched yet.
>
> Have a wonderful week-end,
> Elizabeth Spreng
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerim Friedman <oxusnet at GMAIL.COM>
> To: LINGANTH  
<LINGANTH at LISTSERV.**LINGUISTLIST.ORG<LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG> 

> >
> Sent: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 11:14 pm
> Subject: Re: AV tools for teaching intro to ling anth (esp. films,
> youtubes, etc)
>
>
> Here are some more videos that might be useful for teaching, from  
Mother
> Jones:
>
> Roundup of our favorite "Shit [insert race, gender, sexual  
orientation]
> Say" videos http://mojo.ly/zCignw
>
>
> - Kerim
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Alejandro Paz
> <alejandro.paz at utoronto.ca>**wrote:
>
>  Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Thanks to one and all for the wonderful suggestions! I'm making my  
way
>> through them all, and I've talked to Alex Enkerli about compiling a
>>
> list
>
>> for the SLA site, with some searchable tags.
>>
>> Another one of my favorites, btw, to talk about Bakhtin's points of
>> re-voicing and interdiscursivity is to use the Soprano's episode 2,
>>
> "46
>
>> Long," where Tony first discusses getting his mother into a  
retirement
>>
> home
>
>> with his shrink and then in a later scene, tries to use that same
>> therapeutic voice (as if his own) to speak to his mother, without  
much
>> success.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alejandro
>> ______________________________****____________________
>> Alejandro I. Paz
>>
>> Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Humanities
>> University of Toronto Scarborough
>> Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics
>> University of Toronto
>> alejandro.paz at utoronto.ca
>> ______________________________****___________________
>>
>>
>> On 2011-12-13 7:01 PM, Ilana Gershon wrote:
>>
>>  I like using Dave Chappelle's skit about the black blind white
>>> supremacist to teach fractal recursivity, especially to track
>>> oppositions between public and private.
>>> Ilana
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> --
>
>
> *P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 <http://kerim.oxus.net/>*
> *
> *
>
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Indigenous Cultures
> College of Indigenous Studies
> National DongHwa University, TAIWAN
> 助理教授國立東華大學民族文化學系
>