The History Of The English Language Part I, The Origins Of English
Focuses on the development of Old English, tracing it from its position as one of the Germanic languages back to its roots in the theoretical language known as Indo-European, and then moving forward as the Norman conquest causes French and Latin to eclipse English until it becomes, at the close of t...
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Chantilly, Va. :
Teaching Co.,
Ã1998.
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language.
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Table of Contents:
- Disc 1. lecture 1. Introduction to the study of language
- lecture 2. Historic study of language: methods and approaches
- lecture 3. Prehistory of English: the Indo-European context
- lecture 4. Reconstructing meaning and sound
- lecture 5. Words and worlds: historical linguistics and the study of culture
- lecture 6. Beginnings of English
- Disc 2. lecture 7. Old English: the Anglo-Saxon worldview
- lecture 8. Changing language: did the Normans really conquer English?
- lecture 9. Conquering language: what did the Normans do the English?
- lecture 10. Chaucer's English
- lecture 11. Dialect jokes and literary representation in Middle English
- lecture 12. Multilingual world: medieval attitudes toward language change and variation.
