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Do You Speak American? : Down South
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This program follows Robert MacNeil down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Appalachia, Louisiana Cajun country, and the Tex-Mex border to examine Southern dialects and accents and the influences o...
This program follows Robert MacNeil down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Appalachia, Louisiana Cajun country, and the Tex-Mex border to examine Southern dialects and accents and the influences of French and Spanish on American English. Linguist Walt Wolfram, columnist Molly Ivins, pop country singer Cody James, and others talk about regional differences in vernacular, the steady displacement of Southern coastal dialect by inland dialect, the accents of JFK and LBJ, and the Texas border town of El Cenizo, where Spanish is the official language. Recordings of Eudora Welty and Appalachian storyteller Ray Hicks are included, as well as WPA recordings from around 1940.
Details
- Creator
- MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
- Included Title
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- Do you speak American? (Television program)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (57 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn811355926
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on September 19, 2005.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- Closed-captioned.
- Appalachian Dialect (6:36) -- Country Music: New American Dialect (5:16) -- Plantation or Coastal South Dialect (3:30) -- Louisiana: Cajun Dialect (4:33) -- Texas Accent (6:02) -- Texas Cotton Country Dialect (5:50) -- White and Black American Speech (3:25) -- Texas Talk, Kinky Friedman, and Molly Ivins (5:37) -- Presidential Accents (2:53) -- Spanish Influence on Language (5:21) -- U.S. Border Patrol and Immigrants (3:33)