Disney & Dialects

"animated films offer a unique way to study how a dominant culture reaffirms its control over subordinate cultures and nations be re-establishing , on a day to day basis, their preferred view of the world as right and proper and primary. Precisely because of animations innocence and innocuousness, the film makers have a broader spectrum of tools available to them and a great deal of leeway."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBJwWsvmxeQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFrxy2NCHcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KJnqvQrBT8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKEnc9lcpfA


Why Disney Matters:

• large share of the market
• cultural appropriation
• increased influence of broadcast media
• internalize categories and stereotypes

Results:

• language stereotypes are reinforced
• foreign places are stereotyped
• foreign cultures/subcultures are stereotyped
• certain groups are left out.
• children believe portrays to be true
• evoke other cultures only in so far as they mesh with the expectations of American audiences
• "animated films offer a unique way to study how a dominant culture reaffirms its control over subordinate cultures and nations be re-establishing , on a day to day basis, their preferred view of the world as right and proper and primary. Precisely because of animations innocence and innocuousness, the film makers have a broader spectrum of tools available to them and a great deal of leeway."

where is stigmatized language used?

• animal characters
• evil characters
• stupid/clownish characters
• irresponsible Latinos
• gregarious Italians
• nefarious Asians
• smart mouthed, lazy & disrespectful African Americans (will be dark)
• savage Native Americans
• linguistic profiling: THE ABILITY TO CHARACTERIZE SOMEONES RACE THROUGH THE WAY THEY SPEAK
• Good and evil is strongly correlated with race and ethnicity