| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guides (22 cm.). |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Professor Seth Lerer, lecturer, Stanford University. |
| Note |
Compact disc. |
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In 3 containers (23 cm.). |
| Summary |
Presents lectures on the history of the English language. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| 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 |
1598034014 |
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9781598034011 |
| Standard No. |
9781598034011 |
| Music No. |
2250 Teaching Co. |
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