Language and Society : What Your Speech Says About you
DVD - 2014 DVD 306.44 Fr Oversize None on shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
| Location & Checkout Length | Call Number | Checkout Length | Item Status |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout |
DVD 306.44 Fr Oversize | 4-week checkout | Due 05-19-2024 |
Disc 1: What does your speech say about you? -- Does language influence worldview? -- What is sociolinguistics? -- Four levels of language variation -- How do dialects develop? -- Language change: what's new is old again -- disc 2: The origin and history of American dialects -- Your shifty vowels -- Vowel shifts and regional American speech -- Language and social class -- Sex, age, and language change -- Language attitudes and social perception -- disc 3: Language as a communicative process -- Making sense of conversational intentions -- Analyzing conversation -- The mechanics of good conversation -- Mind your manners: politeness speech -- Linguistic style and repertoire -- disc 4: The gender divide in language -- Ethnic identity and language -- Socializing children into language -- Language, adolescence, and education -- Text speak: 2 bad 4 English -- The changing face of linguistic diversity.
Lecturer: Valerie Fridland, Univeristy of Nevada, Reno.
DVD.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
No community reviews. Write one below!
SERIES
Great courses. Literature & language. Linguistics.
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2014].
Year Published: 2014
Description: 4 videodiscs (720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course book (vi, 199 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1629971065
9781629971063
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Fridland, Valerie.
Teaching Company.
SUBJECTS
Sociolinguistics.
Language arts -- Social aspects.