Linguistics Movies

A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.

The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary...

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....

This award winning film is a fast paced, humorous look at the colorful way the residents of New Orleans express themselves - why they talk the way...

The collaboration between the Tanacross and Northway, Alaska communities and trained linguistic specialists from the Alaska Native Language Center to...

Nelly Arcan published her autobiographical novel *Folle* in 2004. She took her own life in 2009. She died because she was made to feel crazy. Because...