The history of the English language - Lerer, Seth; Drake, Maya L.; McNeill, John; Shine, Dan (Chantilly, Virginia : The great courses, 2008)
Disco 1. 1. Introduction to the study of language (30 min., 25 sec.) -- 2. The historical study of language (30 min., 19 sec.) -- 3. Indo-European and the prehistory of English (28 min., 06 sec.) -- 4. Reconstructing meaning and sound (30 min., 25 sec.) -- 5. Historical linguistics and studying culture (30 min., 28 sec.) -- 6. The beginnings of English (30 min., 04 sec.) Disco 2. 7. The old English worldview (30 min., 29 sec.) -- 8. Did the normans really conquer English? (30 min., 06 sec.) -- 9. What did the normans do to English? (29 min., 46 sec.) -- 10. Chaucer's English (29 min., 47 sec.) -- 11. Dialect representations in middle English (30 min., 08 sec.) -- 12. Medieval attitudes toward language (30 min., 21 sec.) -- Disco 3. 13. The return of English as a standard (30 min., 51 sec.) -- 14. The great vowel shift and modern English (29 min., 58 sec.) -- 15. The expanding English vocabulary (30 min., 01 sec.) -- 16. Early modern English syntax and grammar (28 min., 33 sec.) -- 17. Renaissance attitudes toward teaching English (31 min., 21 sec.) -- 18. Shakespeare-drama, grammar, pronunciation (29 min., 35 sec.) -- Disco 4. 19. Shakespeare-poetry, sound, sense (31 min., 18 sec.) -- 20. The Bible in English (30 min., 05 sec.) -- 21. Samuel Johnson and his dictionary (30 min., 45 sec.) -- 22. New standards in English (30 min., 23 sec.) -- 23. Dictionaries and word histories (31 min., 41 sec.) -- 24. Values, words, and modernity (32 min., 15 sec.) -- Disco 5. 25. The beginnings of American English (31 min., 42 sec.) -- 26. American language from Webster to Mencken (30 min., 32 sec.) -- 27. American rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln (31 min.,09 sec.) -- 28. The language of the American self (29 min., 50 sec.) -- 29. American regionalism (30 min., 20 sec.) -- 30. American dialects in literature (30 min., 53 sec.) -- Disco 6. 31. The impact of African-American English...
Los DVD's son producidos por Maya L. Drake y editados por John McNeill y Dan Shine.
Cada DVD contiene información del autor y las clases impartidas por el mismo.
Incluye cronograma, glosario, notas biográficas y bibliografía : páginas 190-218
Keywords: INGLES; LENGUAJE Y LENGUAS; HISTORIA; ETIMOLOGÍA; LINGUISTICA