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Linguistic Variation in Animated Films from 2001 to 2017

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Abstract

This chapter presents the corpus of animated films, providing a description of language variation and linguistic characterisation in the films. It summarises how various languages and language varieties are represented in each film, examining which characters speak English natively and which speak a non-native variety of English or a language other than English. Each film is described through summary tables containing information about characters, language varieties and languages. The chapter also highlights interesting trends or patterns in linguistic characterisation in the original films.

Keywords

  • Linguistic variation
  • Multilingualism
  • Corpus of animated films
  • Linguistic characterisation
  • Stereotypes

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Notes

  1. 1.

    A table containing the films in alphabetical order is provided in Appendix 1.

  2. 2.

    On the use of General American by actors and trained speech teachers to teach a non-regionally marked variety of American English for the stage see the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA): https://www.dialectsarchive.com/general-american.

  3. 3.

    On this TV and cinema trope see https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurferDude.

  4. 4.

    Eight native speakers of British English and one native speaker of American English identified the language variety spoken by Chief Bogo as British English. Four British English speakers also detected an East London accent (see also Dore 2019), while two detected an accent that was a mixture of British and American.

  5. 5.

    I would like to thank Claudia Gvirzman Dichter, Giselle Spiteri Miggiani, Antonio Romano, Christopher Taylor, Stuart Doherty and Shan Hirst for their comments.

  6. 6.

    I would like to thank Stuart Doherty for providing these data, creating tables and pie charts.

  7. 7.

    I would like to thank Tessa Dwyer for her comments about Australian accents and film stereotypes of Australians.

  8. 8.

    The dubbing director of the Italian version confirms that the bears are Russian (Mete, p.c. 9 June 2020) and that the client asked them to make them speak with a slight Russian accent in the dubbed version.

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Minutella, V. (2021). Linguistic Variation in Animated Films from 2001 to 2017. In: (Re)Creating Language Identities in Animated Films. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56638-8_4

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