Multimedia Collection
Up North
(Do You Speak American? series)
DVD
60 minutes
2005
PE2808 .M262 2005 pt.1 DVD
In this program, Robert MacNeil canvasses the North to learn firsthand about linguistic dialect zones, the tension between prescriptivism and descriptivism, the impact of dialect on grapholect, the northern cities vowel shift, the roots of African-American English, minority dialects and linguistic profiling, biases against nonstandard speech, and the general perception of the U.S. Midland dialect as "normal American." Hip-hop street talk, IM slang, Pittsburghese, and Gallah and Geechee are sampled, and Bill Labov, the dean of American linguists; Jesse Sheidlower, American editor of the august OED; and New York magazine's John Simon are featured. Web links are included. A computer with a DVD-ROM drive is required to access them. Some language may be offensive.
Distributed by Films for Humanities & Sciences (www.films.com)
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