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The story of human language / John McWhorter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Great courses | The great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., 2004.Description: 3 volumes ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1565859499
  • 9781565859494
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 M478s 2004
Contents:
Part 1 : Lecture 1. What is language? -- Lecture 2. When language began -- Lecture 3. How language changes: sound change -- Lecture 4. How language changes: building new material -- Lecture 5. How language changes: meaning and order -- Lecture 6. How language changes: many directions -- Lecture 7. How language changes: modern English -- Lecture 8. Language families: Indo-European -- Lecture 9. Language families: tracing Indo-European -- Lecture 10. Language families: diversity of structures -- Lecture 11. Language families: clues to the past -- Lecture 12. The case against the world's first language. Part 2 : Lecture 13. The case for the world's first language -- Lecture 14. Dialects: subspecies of species -- Lecture 15. Dialects: where do you draw the line? -- Lecture 16. Dialects: two tongues in one mouth -- Lecture 17. Dialects: the standard as token of the past -- Lecture 18. Dialects: spoken style, written style -- Lecture 19. Dialects: the fallacy of blackboard grammar -- Lecture 20. Language mixture: words -- Lecture 21. Language mixture: grammar -- Lecture 22. Language mixture: language areas -- Lecture 23. Language develops beyond the call of duty -- Lecture 24. Language interrupted. Part 3 : Lecture 25. A new perspective on the story of English -- Lecture 26. Does culture drive language change? -- Lecture 27. Language starts over: Pidgins -- Lecture 28. Language starts over: Creoles I -- Lecture 29. Language starts over: Creoles II -- Lecture 30. Language starts over: signs of the new -- Lecture 31. Language starts over: the Creole continuum -- Lecture 32. What is Black English? -- Lecture 33. Language death: the problem -- Lecture 34. Language death: prognosis -- Lecture 35. Artificial languages -- Lecture 36. Finale: master class.
Summary: Course explores many of the common questions about language, such as: Why isn't there just a single language? Or, How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth?
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Course no. 1600.

"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

Part 1 : Lecture 1. What is language? --
Lecture 2. When language began --
Lecture 3. How language changes: sound change --
Lecture 4. How language changes: building new material --
Lecture 5. How language changes: meaning and order --
Lecture 6. How language changes: many directions --
Lecture 7. How language changes: modern English --
Lecture 8. Language families: Indo-European --
Lecture 9. Language families: tracing Indo-European --
Lecture 10. Language families: diversity of structures --
Lecture 11. Language families: clues to the past --
Lecture 12. The case against the world's first language. Part 2 : Lecture 13. The case for the world's first language --
Lecture 14. Dialects: subspecies of species --
Lecture 15. Dialects: where do you draw the line? --
Lecture 16. Dialects: two tongues in one mouth --
Lecture 17. Dialects: the standard as token of the past --
Lecture 18. Dialects: spoken style, written style --
Lecture 19. Dialects: the fallacy of blackboard grammar --
Lecture 20. Language mixture: words --
Lecture 21. Language mixture: grammar --
Lecture 22. Language mixture: language areas --
Lecture 23. Language develops beyond the call of duty --
Lecture 24. Language interrupted. Part 3 : Lecture 25. A new perspective on the story of English --
Lecture 26. Does culture drive language change? --
Lecture 27. Language starts over: Pidgins --
Lecture 28. Language starts over: Creoles I --
Lecture 29. Language starts over: Creoles II --
Lecture 30. Language starts over: signs of the new --
Lecture 31. Language starts over: the Creole continuum --
Lecture 32. What is Black English? --
Lecture 33. Language death: the problem --
Lecture 34. Language death: prognosis --
Lecture 35. Artificial languages --
Lecture 36. Finale: master class.

Course explores many of the common questions about language, such as: Why isn't there just a single language? Or, How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth?

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