American Tongues
American Tongues

American Tongues

1987-06-24| 57 min

Rich in humor and regional color, this sometimes hilarious film uses the prism of language to reveal our attitudes about the way other people speak. From Boston Brahmins to Black Louisiana teenagers, from Texas cowboys to New York professionals, American Tongues elicits funny, perceptive, sometimes shocking, and always telling comments on American English in all its diversity. (PBS)

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Share on social media

Facebook

Facebook

X

X

Linkedin

Linkedin

More Like This

CodeSwitching
Do I Sound Gay?
Project Nim
The Grammar of Happiness
Noam Chomsky: Knowledge and Power
Treno di parole - Viaggio nella poesia di Raffaello Baldini
We Will Speak
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
To Save a Language
If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
Das Geheimnis von Bern
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
Scouts Are Cancelled
Piz Regolith
Marc Okrand on Klingon
Aranzazú, a memory of ruins