TY - ADVS AU - Great Courses,The AU - McWhorter,John ED - The Great Courses (Firm), ED - Kanopy (Firm), TI - Language A to Z PY - 2020/// PB - The Great Courses KW - Anthropology KW - Linguistics KW - History, Ancient KW - Mass media KW - Second language acquisition KW - History, Modern KW - Sociology KW - Foreign study KW - Education films KW - lcgft N1 - Title from title frames; Film; In Process Record; John McWhorter; Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2020 N2 - There's a lot to learn about language from cartoons. In this episode, find out how depictions of older people in American cartoons used to reflect the distinction between how people speak in the country versus the city. Also, hear this idea at work through a 1960s study about local accents on Martha's Vineyard UR - https://tus.kanopy.com/node/12413212 UR - https://www.kanopy.com/node/12413212/external-image ER -