There Is More to Being a Scotsman than Putting on a Kilt and Trilling your /r/s. A Study of Linguistic Credibility in the Hollywood Movie Braveheart
This article investigates the linguistic credibility of the Hollywood movie Braveheart (1995). After first discussing the producers’ choice of rejecting the reality of historically correct language use, in favour of transposing modern day socioliguistic realities, a phonetic analysis of the leading...
Main Author: | Jan Pedersen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad de Zaragoza
2007-12-01
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Series: | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/9700 |
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