Do you speak American?
Subtitle: Episode 3
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; MacNeil/Lehrer Productions; Paladin InVision, Ltd; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); KLRU (Television station : Austin, Tex.); Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
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: Out west; Do you speak American? (Television program)
Description: In this program, Robert MacNeil heads to California to take part in meaningful dialogues on Spanglish, Chicano, Ebonics, and "Surfer Dude" before going to Seattle to consider the implications of voice-activation technology.  Linguist Carmen Fought, Stanford University's Cliff Nass, screenwriters Amy Heckerling and Winnie Holtzman, and others speak their minds about Spanish in America, why teens create their own language, gay self-empowerment by redefining discriminatory terms, the oo-fronting sound shift, and whether technology will reinforce or weaken racial/regional stereotypes.  The teaching of English without devaluing or denigrating cultural linguistice differences is addressed.
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 the program.

Optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Spanglish and Chicano; title: African-American English in California; title: Movies and California prestige; title: Valley girl and surfer dude; title: Other forms of "board-speak"; title: Language and social identity; title: Computer voices; title: In the Stanford lab; title: Up to Seattle.