- Links to various images, sound-files, etc.
- Handout on Basic Linguistics
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Eskimo ``words" for `snow'.
- Handout on morphology
(grammar)
- Document about
Foreign Branding (a.k.a. 'country-of-origin' effect.)
- Handout on Language Use and
Authenticity
- The notion of
linguistic register and some examples of
linguistic registers in English.
- A toy called the
`Furby' which supposedly 'speaks' and/or 'learns to speak'.
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The importance of Metaphor.
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Some Useful Bibliographies
- A bibliography on
linguistic metaphor
- Several bibliographies on
gender issues
- A bibliography on
sociolinguistics
- A bibliography on
vocal variables, code-switching, and social roles
- A bibliography on the subject of
Language Attitude research
- Discussion of Anthropomorphism
in the character-formation of alien species.
- An article about the
the "origin" of alien species
- Discussion on
dialects and their representation in the media.
- Radio transcript of interviews of and by Labov on New York
dialect
- Linguistics Dept. Phonological Atlas page.
- Discussion on the topic of
French branding
- Article from the Phila. Enq. on
British accents and their 'meaning.'
- My discussion of the issue of
language and emotion
- My article on the topic of
linguistic primordialism
- Filmscripts:
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Discussion of Methodology
- Summary of Booth, Colomb and Williams' presentation on
Claims, Evidence, Arguments and Warrants
- Handout on Caricature.
- The relationship between
vocal variables and their marking functions.
- A table showing some
correlations between "voice
quality" and social attributions.
- Use of a chihuahua with a Mexican accent by Taco Bell in a commercial
- Images of Orientalism:
Various 19th-century
(and some 20th-century) images
- Article about the movie
The
Siege and its tendency to
demonize people, especially Arabs, Muslims and people
from the Middle East.
- Article on the refusal of the government
of Thailand to allow filming of a remake of The King and I
claiming that it makes their king (Mongkut) look like a buffoon.
- Website devoted to films about
people with special needs a.k.a. "language and disability".
- Sample Bibliography for your
papers.
- Link to Internet Movie Database
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