The history of the English language
Presents lectures on the history of the English language.
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| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2008]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. Introduction to the study of language
- lecture 2. The historical study of language
- lecture 3. Indo-European and the prehistory of English
- lecture 4. Reconstructing meaning and sound
- lecture 5. Historical linguistics and studying culture
- lecture 6. The beginnings of English
- lecture 7. The Old English worldview
- lecture 8. Did the Normans really conquer English?
- lecture 9. What did the Normans do to English?
- lecture 10. Chaucer's English
- lecture 11. Dialect representations in Middle English
- lecture 12. Medieval attitudes toward language.
- Lecture 13. The return of English as a standard
- lecture 14. The great vowel shift and modern English
- lecture 15. The expanding English vocabulary
- lecture 16. Early modern English syntax and grammar
- lecture 17. Renaissance attitudes toward teaching English
- lecture 18. Shakespeare: drama, grammar, pronunciation
- lecture 19. Shakespeare: poetry, sound, sense
- lecture 20. The Bible in English
- lecture 21. Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary
- lecture 22. New standards in English
- lecture 23. Dictionaries and word histories
- lecture 24. Values, words and modernity.
- Lecture 25. The beginnings of American English
- lecture 26. American language from Webster to Mencken
- lecture 27. American rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln
- lecture 28. The language of the American self
- lecture 29. American regionalism
- lecture 30. American dialects in literature
- lecture 31. The impact of African-American English
- lecture 32. An Anglophone world
- lecture 33. The language of science
- lecture 34. The science of language
- lecture 35. Linguistics and politics in language study
- lecture 36. Conclusions and provocations.
