LINGUIST List 7.535

Fri Apr 12 1996

Misc: Ling for speech therapists, Lang & the movies

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

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1. Hugh Buckingham, Re: 7.501, Sum: Linguistics for speech therapists
2. Jack Aubert, Re: 7.503, Disc: Language & the Movies
3. Sonya Capps, ling in movies

Message 1: Re: 7.501, Sum: Linguistics for speech therapists

Sirs: In search of good material on linguistics for speech therapists,
I would suggest the textbook and accompanying workbook. The text is
titled: LINGUISTICS FOR NON LINGUISTS: A PRIMER WITH EXERCISES. (2nd
ed.). Allyn & Bacon. 1994.

From,
Hugh W. Buckingham, PHD

Message 2: Re: 7.503, Disc: Language & the Movies

>I think all movies are interesting from a linguistic point of view.
>Foremost is the portrayal of colloquial speech, to those who have
>observed genuine colloquial speech from a linguistic point of view....
>Older movies are striking for their adherence to the Gricean/Searlean,
>even early Scheglovian maxims for conversational turn-taking, etc.
>The addressee almost free2es when listening to the speaker....


I have always wondered the extent to which older movies accurately
reflect contemporary speech patterns. People in older movies seem to
speak more rapidly, but there is also something different that is hard
to put one's finger on. A kind of intensity, perhaps. Have
filmmakers simply learned to do more realistic dialog or have things
like speed and intonation of speach really changed. When I hear Bob
Dole speak, he somehow remids me of film noir. Is it his age or my
imagination? I mean no disrespect for Dole (or his age) by this
observation.

Whoops! When I mailed you before I was not aware that your query
called for movies in which lang. was the CENTRAL THEME!

anyway, here is my latest response:

Mr. Holland's Opus
Charlotte's Web
Regarding Henry (contributory)
Awakenings
The Rainman
Roots series (contributory)
Planet of the Apes (the episode in which Galen (or whoever)
speaks his first word ("No!") marks a turning point in the
regression of humankind)
Lorenzo's Oil
War Games (contributory)
Airplane
Tarzan (contributory)
Twilight Zone (series): "To Serve Man"
El Norte (contributory)
Men (contributory; mainly nonverbal communication)




Charlie Rowe
roweemail.unc.edu