The history of the English language /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lerer, Seth (autor)
Otros Autores: Drake, Maya L. (productora), McNeill, John (Editor ), Shine, Dan (Editor )
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chantilly, Virginia : The great courses, c2008.
Edición:2nd edition
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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...