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My Fair Lady: Understanding Eliza’s Transformation Through Language
Hey, guys! For today’s #WeeklyWednesday, I decided to share a practice take I made of a research presentation for one of my courses at #NYU (it’s weird sometimes “performing” or talking alone in my apartment in front of a camera đ I think it went pretty well and definitely felt more natural in person!). I hope you enjoy hearing my questions and ideas about Eliza’s development throughout “My Fair Lady” from a sociolinguistics/linguistic anthropology lens – and that it gives you some good food for thought! Things here are going well – just much, much busier than I’d like (it’s not a sustainable pace right now!). Hope you’re doing well,…
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An Analysis of Language Ideologies in Disneyâs “Moana”
University of California, Irvine, 2017. Linguistic Anthropology. [Assignment prompt: Analyze language ideologies in a popular animated film released after 1994 and intended primarily for children. Reference Rosina Lippi-Greenâs article âTeaching children how to discriminate,â in English with an Accent, 79-103. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.] âA smooth sea never made a skilled sailorâ Franklin Delano Roosevelt a Inspired by the remarkable voyaging heritage of early Polynesians and their mythology â particularly the shapeshifting, trickster demigod, Maui â Disney creatives, led by Ron Clements and John Musker, and a team of Pacific Island experts, worked for 5 years to craft Disneyâs 2016 film Moana (Robinson 2016). Not only does Moana…
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