The story of human language Discs 1, 2, 3
Course explores many of the common questions about language, such as: Why isn't there just a single language? Or, How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth? Course guidebook available at Reference Desk.
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[2007], ©2004.
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD). Social sciences.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The story of human language. |n Discs 1, 2, 3 |h [videodisc] / |c John H. McWhorter. |
| 260 | |a Chantilly, Va. : |b Teaching Company, |c [2007], ©2004. | ||
| 300 | |a 3 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : |b sound, color ; |c 4 3/4 in. + |e 1 guidebook (iv, 201 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm). | ||
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| 500 | |a "Course no. 1600." | ||
| 500 | |a Lectures 1-36 of 36 lectures on 6 discs in 3 containers. | ||
| 511 | 0 | |a Taught by: Professor John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute. | |
| 500 | |a Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography. | ||
| 520 | |a Course explores many of the common questions about language, such as: Why isn't there just a single language? Or, How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth? Course guidebook available at Reference Desk. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1 : Lecture 1. What is language? -- Lecture 2. When language began -- Lecture 3. How language changes: sound change -- Lecture 4. How language changes: building new material -- Lecture 5. How language changes: meaning and order -- Lecture 6. How language changes: many directions -- Lecture 7. How language changes: modern English -- Lecture 8. Language families: Indo-European -- Lecture 9. Language families: tracing Indo-European -- Lecture 10. Language families: diversity of structures -- Lecture 11. Language families: clues to the past -- Lecture 12. The case against the world's first language. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part 2 : Lecture 13. The case for the world's first language -- Lecture 14. Dialects: subspecies of species -- Lecture 15. Dialects: where do you draw the line? -- Lecture 16. Dialects: two tongues in one mouth -- Lecture 17. Dialects: the standard as token of the past -- Lecture 18. Dialects: spoken style, written style -- Lecture 19. Dialects: the fallacy of blackboard grammar -- Lecture 20. Language mixture: words -- Lecture 21. Language mixture: grammar -- Lecture 22. Language mixture: language areas -- Lecture 23. Language develops beyond the call of duty -- Lecture 24. Language interrupted. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part 3 : Lecture 25. A new perspective on the story of English -- Lecture 26. Does culture drive language change? -- Lecture 27. Language starts over: Pidgins -- Lecture 28. Language starts over: Creoles I -- Lecture 29. Language starts over: Creoles II -- Lecture 30. Language starts over: signs of the new -- Lecture 31. Language starts over: the Creole continuum -- Lecture 32. What is Black English? -- Lecture 33. Language death: the problem -- Lecture 34. Language death: prognosis -- Lecture 35. Artificial languages -- Lecture 36. Finale: master class. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Linguistics |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Linguistics |x Study and teaching. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Dialectology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Language and languages |x Philosophy |x History. | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a Lectures. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Educational films. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Nonfiction films. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Lectures. |2 lcgft. | |
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| 830 | 0 | |a Great courses (DVD). |p Social sciences. | |
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