grammar girl here i'm mignon fogerty and today i'm here with andrew jung and we are going to

talk about the language in movies because the oscars are coming up and dr jung is one of the

perfect person to talk about this because he wrote an article recently that

caught my eye about language and movies. Dr. Jung teaches linguistics at the University of Hawaii

in Honolulu, and his research focuses on the sounds of language, the social perceptions of language,

and all sorts of phenomena just associated with bilingualism and multilingualism.

Dr. Andrew Jung, welcome to the Grammar Girl podcast. Thanks so much for having me. It's a pleasure

to be here. Yeah, you pet. So you wrote this article about linguistic realism in Hollywood.

And it was just fascinating. Can you tell the audience what you mean by linguistic realism? Sure. I'll start by saying that, as you mentioned,

I'm a linguist. I'm not a film critic. I'm not like a movie analyst of any sort. I'm just a real big fan of cinema. But as a linguist,

specifically a sociolinguist, one of the things I'm interested in is the attitudes that people

hold toward language use in real life and also in media. So when I was watching movies,

over the past, you know, 10 or 15 years, I've noticed

this trend toward the use of authentic language in films themselves.

So that's what I'm calling linguistic realism, is when language use in a movie really reflects

what you might hear in a real life situation.

And this is especially for

dramatic movies that are based off of real life. I'm not talking about fantasy movies where

you've got all sorts of alien languages that are made up. That's also very, very cool. But,

you know, ever since Parasite, that Korean movie won Best Picture in 2020, I think we've seen this huge surge in movies that are

popular, award-winning, that use non-English languages. I think people may not be that aware,

but for the 100 or so years that the Academy Award has been giving out these awards, a lot of the movies

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