Identity
Description
What makes one group of humans different from another? In this program, Stephen Fry argues that above all, it is the way they speak - be it a national language, regional dialect, or even class variation. Visiting markets in Kenya and call centers in Newcastle, Fry charts the shifting patterns of lingua franca and the inexorable spread of Globish (global English). Topics include English accents (with Ian McMillan); multilingualism; Jewish humor and Yiddish; an Irish soap opera that's keeping the Irish language alive; language death in Provence; the survival of Basque and the revival of Hebrew; the French Academy; and languages used by the Turkana people of Kenya.
Runtime
60 min
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Date of Publication
[2013], c2011
Database
Films on Demand
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