The history of the English language

Presents lectures on the history of the English language.

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Main Author: Lerer, Seth, 1955-
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2008]
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Great courses (Compact disc)
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505 0 0 |g Lecture 1.  |t Introduction to the study of language --  |g lecture 2.  |t The historical study of language --  |g lecture 3.  |t Indo-European and the prehistory of English --  |g lecture 4.  |t Reconstructing meaning and sound --  |g lecture 5.  |t Historical linguistics and studying culture --  |g lecture 6.  |t The beginnings of English --  |g lecture 7. The Old English worldview --  |g lecture 8.  |t Did the Normans really conquer English? --  |g lecture 9.  |t What did the Normans do to English? --  |g lecture 10.  |t Chaucer's English --  |g lecture 11. Dialect representations in Middle English --  |g lecture 12.  |t Medieval attitudes toward language. 
505 0 0 |g Lecture 13.  |t The return of English as a standard --  |g lecture 14.  |t The great vowel shift and modern English --  |g lecture 15.  |t The expanding English vocabulary --  |g lecture 16.  |t Early modern English syntax and grammar --  |g lecture 17.  |t Renaissance attitudes toward teaching English --  |g lecture 18.  |t Shakespeare: drama, grammar, pronunciation --  |g lecture 19.  |t Shakespeare: poetry, sound, sense --  |g lecture 20.  |t The Bible in English --  |g lecture 21.  |t Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary --  |g lecture 22.  |t New standards in English --  |g lecture 23.  |t Dictionaries and word histories --  |g lecture 24.  |t Values, words and modernity. 
505 0 0 |g Lecture 25.  |t The beginnings of American English --  |g lecture 26.  |t American language from Webster to Mencken --  |g lecture 27.  |t American rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln --  |g lecture 28.  |t The language of the American self --  |g lecture 29.  |t American regionalism --  |g lecture 30.  |t American dialects in literature --  |g lecture 31.  |t The impact of African-American English --  |g lecture 32.  |t An Anglophone world --  |g lecture 33.  |t The language of science --  |g lecture 34.  |t The science of language --  |g lecture 35.  |t Linguistics and politics in language study --  |g lecture 36.  |t Conclusions and provocations. 
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650 0 |a English language  |x Etymology. 
650 0 |a English language  |y Old English, ca. 450-1100. 
650 0 |a English language  |y Middle English, 1100-1500. 
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