McWhorter, John  1965- <br/><br/>
The story of human language / 
John McWhorter. 
 - Chantilly, Va. :  Teaching Co.,  2004. 
 - 3 volumes ;  21 cm. 
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<br/><br/> Course no. 1600.<br/>  "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover. 
<br/><br/>Part 1 : Lecture 1. What is language? --<br/>Lecture 2. When language began --<br/>Lecture 3. How language changes: sound change --<br/>Lecture 4. How language changes: building new material --<br/>Lecture 5. How language changes: meaning and order --<br/>Lecture 6. How language changes: many directions --<br/>Lecture 7. How language changes: modern English --<br/>Lecture 8. Language families: Indo-European --<br/>Lecture 9. Language families: tracing Indo-European --<br/>Lecture 10. Language families: diversity of structures --<br/>Lecture 11. Language families: clues to the past --<br/>Lecture 12. The case against the world's first language. Part 2 : Lecture 13. The case for the world's first language --<br/>Lecture 14. Dialects: subspecies of species --<br/>Lecture 15. Dialects: where do you draw the line? --<br/>Lecture 16. Dialects: two tongues in one mouth --<br/>Lecture 17. Dialects: the standard as token of the past --<br/>Lecture 18. Dialects: spoken style, written style --<br/>Lecture 19. Dialects: the fallacy of blackboard grammar --<br/>Lecture 20. Language mixture: words --<br/>Lecture 21. Language mixture: grammar --<br/>Lecture 22. Language mixture: language areas --<br/>Lecture 23. Language develops beyond the call of duty --<br/>Lecture 24. Language interrupted. Part 3 : Lecture 25. A new perspective on the story of English --<br/>Lecture 26. Does culture drive language change? --<br/>Lecture 27. Language starts over: Pidgins --<br/>Lecture 28. Language starts over: Creoles I --<br/>Lecture 29. Language starts over: Creoles II --<br/>Lecture 30. Language starts over: signs of the new --<br/>Lecture 31. Language starts over: the Creole continuum --<br/>Lecture 32. What is Black English? --<br/>Lecture 33. Language death: the problem --<br/>Lecture 34. Language death: prognosis --<br/>Lecture 35. Artificial languages --<br/>Lecture 36. Finale: master class. 
<br/><br/> 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? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1565859499 9781565859494 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011377509 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Educación<br/>Enseñanza<br/>Análisis linguístico<br/>Lingüística<br/>Linguística--Historia<br/>Lingüística--Estudio y enseñanza<br/>Dialectología<br/>Lenguaje y lenguas--Filosofía
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB 14.6  / M478s 2004 
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