LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (13 films)

Duration: 30 min

Year Published: 1957

Creator: University of Buffalo

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Titles are: 1. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS—INTRODUCTION. Provides an introduction to the series. Discusses the importance of language. Points out common misconceptions concerning language. Tells what language really is. 2. LANGUAGE AND WRITING. Begins a definition of language. Discusses the logic of language. Explains misconceptions about language and writing. Points out that language symbolizes experience and writing symbolizes language. Shows the relationship between written and spoken language using vowels, intonation patterns and distribution patterns. 3. DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE. Explains the relationship between language and culture. Tells whether one language is older, better, or more difficult to learn than another language. Discusses language patterns and how they affect the learning of a language. 4. LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO LANGUAGE LEARNING. Examines the meaning of "correctness" and the importance of "rules" in grammar. Points out the difference between literary and spoken language. Discusses the four types of stress used in speaking: primary, secondary, tertiary, and weak. 5. SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE. Explains how linguists analyze and classify significant sounds of language. Discusses phonetics and phonemics, the science of speech sounds. Shows the organs of speech. 6. DIALECTS. Explains dialect differences in standard English. Calls upon five guests from different geographical areas in the United States who illustrate pronunciation differences. Shows how language variations are divided into geographical areas. 7. GRAMMAR—I. Examines the structure, patterning and classification of words. Explains how the linguist defines a word in terms of base, vowels, and stress patterns. Presents examples using nouns, verbs, and pronouns. 8. GRAMMAR—II. Explains how adjectives, adverbs and prepositions are identified by structure rather than meaning. Examines the structure of phrases and sentences. 9. HISTORY OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY. Discusses the history of the Indo-European language family and how different languages are related. Explains how linguists developed a systematic reconstruction of Germanic languages. Points out the contributions of Grimm and Verner in developing laws of language development. 10. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Investigates the history, development and spread of the English language. Develops a breakdown of the Proto-Germanic language into its descendant languages. Traces the dialects of England about 600 A.D. Explains how vocabularies change and develop as cultures mingle. 11. THE ALPHABET. Analyzes the English writing system and traces the origin, development and spread of the alphabet. Shows and explains various writing systems including Sanskrit, Chinese and Arabic. Discusses the significance of hieroglyphics in the development of written language. 12. LINGUISTICS SCIENCE AND THE TEACHING OF READING. Discusses the use of the linguistics approach as a means of improving reading ability. Analyzes the deficiencies and strong points of the phonics and word methods of teaching reading. Explains the purpose and nature of reading. 13. LANGUAGE AND MEANING. Defines meaning from the linguistics point of view. Explains the part structure plays in determining meaning from language. Discusses the relationship of paralanguage and kinesics to language and meaning.

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Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)