Do you speak American?
Subtitle: Episode 2
By: a MacNeil/Lehrer & Paladin InVision Production with Thirteen/WNET New York in association with KLRU Austin, Texas ; producers, William Cran, Christopher Buchanan ; director, William Cran ; writers, William Cran & Robert MacNeil
Contributors: Cassidy, Orlagh; Palmer, Allan; Frost, Joe; Foss, Paul; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); MacNeil/Lehrer Productions; Paladin InVision, Ltd; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); KLRU (Television station : Austin, Tex.)
Series: TED 665 (NU course); TED 666 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: English language; Spoken English; Dialects; Pronunciation; Documentary films
Other titles: Down south; Do you speak American? (Television program)
Description: Follows Robert MacNeil as he travels down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Appalachia, Louisiana Cajun country, and the Tex-Mex border to examine Southern dialects and accents and the influences of French and Spanish on American English.  Linguist Walt Wolfram, columnist Molly Ivins, pop country singer Cody James, and others talk about regional differences in vernacular, the steady displacement of Southern coastal dialect by inland dialect, the accents of JFK and LBJ, and the Texas border town of El Cenizo, where Spanish is the official language.  Includes recordings of Eudora Welty and Appalachian storyteller Ray Hicks, as well as WPA recordings from around 1940.
Notes: Cameraman, Allan Palmer ; editor, Joe Frost ; composer, Paul Foss.

Featuring, Robert MacNeil ; narrator, Orlagh Cassidy.

DVD.

System requirements: DVD-ROM drive required to access Web links included with this program.

Optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Appalachian English; title: Sounding country; title: Cajun English; title: Cowboy talk; title: African-American English in Texas; title: Texas town names and Kinky Friedman; title: Languages and politics; title: South to the border.