Multilingualism in the movies
Subtitle: Hollywood characters and their language choices
By: Lukas Bleichenbacher
Series: Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten -- Bd. 135 = -- Swiss studies in English -- Bd. 135,; Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten -- Bd. 135.
Publisher: Francke
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9783772082702
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Language and languages in motion pictures; Motion pictures and language; Multilingualism
Description: "Do 'bad guys' in Hollywood movies necessarily speak 'broken' English? What happens when film characters switch between English, French, or even Serbian? Why does Hollywood show Mozart and his wife speaking American English? This study is based on a corpus of multilingual movie dialogues from 32 contemporary Hollywood thrillers, dramas an comedies. With an approach that draws on stylistics, critical discourse analysis and quantitative sociolinguistics, the author tests the claim that the movies reinforce stereotypes of foreigners, and contribute to ideologies of English-only monolingualism."
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Zürich, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-236).