The history of the English language /
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Formato: | Libro |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Chantilly, Virginia :
The great courses,
c2008.
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Edición: | 2nd edition |
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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...