| Description |
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm.). |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (DVD)
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Seth Lerer, Stanford University. |
| Summary |
This course of thirty-six lectures introduces the student to the history of the English language, from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples, through the literary and cultural documents of its 1500 year span, to the state of American speech of the present day. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The origins of English: introduction to the study of language -- The historic study of language: methods and approaches -- The prehistory of English: the Indo-European context -- Reconstructing meaning and sound -- Words and worlds: historical linguistics and the study of culture -- The beginnings of English -- Old English: the Anglo-Saxon worldview -- Changing language: dd the Normans really conquer English? -- Chaucer's English -- Dialect jokes and literary representation in Middle English -- A multilingual world: medieval attitudes toward language change and variation. |
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pt. 2. Making modern English: the Return of English as a standard -- How we speak: the great vowel shift and the making of modern English -- What we say : the expanding English vocabulary -- The shape of modern English: changes in syntax and grammar -- Renaissance attitudes toward teaching English -- The language of Shakespeare (1): Drama, grammar, and pronunciation -- The language of Shakespeare (2): Poetry, sound, and sense -- The Bible in English -- Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary -- New Standards in English -- Semantic change: dictionaries and the histories of words -- Values and words in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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pt. 3. English in America and beyond: the beginnings of American English -- Making the American language from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken -- The rhetoric of independence form Jefferson to Lincoln -- The language of the American Self -- American regionalism -- American dialects in literature -- The impact of African-American English -- An anglophone world -- The language of science: the changing nature of 20th century English -- The science of language: the study of language in the 20th century -- Modern linguistics and the politics of language study -- Conclusions and provocations. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
English language -- History.
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English language -- Etymology.
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English language -- Old English, approximately 450-1100.
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500.
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Linguistics.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
156585585X: $374.95 |
| Music No. |
800 Teaching Company |
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801--803 Teaching Company |
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