26.4652, Qs: Good pop-scientific documentaries about dialects

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Subject: 26.4652, Qs: Good pop-scientific documentaries about dialects

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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:16:30
From: Susanne Vejdemo [susanne at ling.su.se]
Subject: Good pop-scientific documentaries about dialects

 
Query:
We want to get our students excited about dialects! We welcome any suggestions for filmed documentaries about dialect variation, language variety competition etc, regarding any language. We'll assemble and share all suggestions sent to us.

Background:
In addition to the mandatory academic lectures on linguistics for our first year students, we have started a series of informal and more pop-scientific documentary movie nights on various linguistic phenomena. As an example, our first themed movie night was about animals and to what extent their communication was similar to that of humans. We all had a great time watching several shorter documentaries, and a lot of interesting discussions arose. When we watch the documentaries together with out students, we can also counter any oversimplification in them, and point out controversial claims. And eat popcorn. We recommend it to all other departments out there.

Best,

Susanne Vejdemo,
Dept of Linguistics
Stockholm University
susanne at ling.su.se
 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Phonetics
                     Sociolinguistics



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