Do you speak American? : Out west

Do you speak American? : Out west

In this program, Robert MacNeil heads to California to take part in meaningful dialogues on Spanglish, Chicano, Ebonics, and "Surfer Dude" before going to Seattle to consider the implications of voice-activation technology. Linguist Carmen Fought, Stanford University's Cliff Nass, sc...

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Main Authors: Cran, William (Author, Producer, Director), MacNeil, Robert, 1931- (Author), Foss, Paul (Composer)
Corporate Authors: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, Paladin InVision, Ltd, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), KLRU (Television station : Austin, Tex.), Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Other Authors: Buchanan, Christopher (Producer), Cassidy, Orlagh (Narrator), Palmer, Allan, Frost, Joe (Editor)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2005.
Subjects:
English language > Spoken English > Pacific Coast (U.S.)
English language > Spoken English > California.
English language > Dialects > United States.
English language > United States > Pronunciation.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Spanglish and Chicano
  • African-American English in California
  • Movies and California prestige
  • Valley girl and surfer dude
  • Other forms of "board-speak"
  • Language and social identity
  • Computer voices
  • In the Stanford lab
  • Up to Seattle.

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