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TA: Yifan Yang Discussion time: 9am April 2, 2018 “American Tongues” Film Commentary “American Tongues” is a documentary exploring American English dialects and accents and the perceptions people have towards them. Everyone has a unique attitude and perspective towards the way other people speak. This film documented the different ...
AMERICAN TONGUES Study Guide By Walt Wolfram, University of North Carolina At Raleigh. INTRODUCING THE VIDEO. Little introduction is needed in presenting the video. For the most part, it is self-explanatory. Viewers should also be told that dialects are an important part of all of American society, and that the film reflects how dialects ...
American Tongues. 1988, 56 minutes, produced and directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker. Video unavailable. Watch on YouTube. Watch on. To browse all clips from this film, click the fast-forward icon while playing. This Peabody Award-winning look at American accents and their social implications is both a proven crowd-pleaser and a unique ...
American dialects came from the speech of the first English settlers who brought with them the accents of their regions. The folks from the London area who settled in Virginia and Massachusetts spoke a different way from the folks from Northern England who made their home in Philadelphia. As the population spread out, these groups and others interacted mixing with on-English speaking settlers ...
In the film “American Tongues,” enormous majority of American from different cities have different regional accents of English. Some people have positive attitude towards the different regional accents of English. They believe that the way people speak is always changing based on what they hear from their linguistic environment.
American Tongues is a 1988 sociolinguistic documentary examining American English dialect s and accent s and perceptions thereof. It was produced and directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker. The Center for New American Media won a Peabody Award for the film in 1987. It aired on the first season of the PBS series POV in 1988.
America’s “national voice” speaks with the urban, white dialect rather than the rural, working class. It would be near impossible to measure, but I predict that the average American dialect would sound more like the latter than the former. I remember laughing at my friend who changed her Waze navigation voice to Morgan Freeman. His voice, often attributed to the voice of “God” for ...
