The History of the English Language DVDs: The Teaching Company (The Great Courses)
The History of the English Language DVDs: The Teaching Company (The Great Courses)
1998 | English | DVD-Rip | AVI | 640x480 | XviD 190 Kbps 29.970 fps | MP3 128 Kbps | Lenght: 18:05:00 | 493.88 mb
Genre: eLearning/Language | Studio: The Teaching Company | ISBN-10: 156585585X | ISBN-13: 978 1565855854 | PDF | 135 | Subtitles: No
1998 | English | DVD-Rip | AVI | 640x480 | XviD 190 Kbps 29.970 fps | MP3 128 Kbps | Lenght: 18:05:00 | 493.88 mb
Genre: eLearning/Language | Studio: The Teaching Company | ISBN-10: 156585585X | ISBN-13: 978 1565855854 | PDF | 135 | Subtitles: No
This is a 36-lecture course, each lecture being thirty minutes in length. The subject is fascinating, and Lerer is obviously learned and highly articulate if intermittently frustratingly dry and pedantic, nevertheless, to the listener's relief, often highly witty as well. In the first third of the course, Lerer focuses on the development of Old English from its roots in Germanic languages, in turn hearkening back to Indo-European, then moving forward through the period of the Norman Conquest, not neglecting to delve into the methodologies and sources of linguistic study in general, including literary criticism. In the second third, he discusses the making of Modern English, including the Great Vowel Shift and changes in syntax and grammar, continuing through its changes and uses in common speech and in literature, as well as its reflection in lexicography, in Europe into the twentieth century. The final third of the courses concentrates on American English, its dialects and literature. The listener comes away with not only a sense of the broad sweep of English language development but also an appreciation of its study as a discipline, to say nothing of an amazing number of fascinating and delightful linguistic anecdotes and tidbits. Well worth the time and effort, I think. I should add that mine is the first edition of this course, from 1998, there now being a second edition; I have no idea how they differ.
About author
Professor Seth Lerer (1956 -) is a contemporary Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, specialising in historical analyses of the English language, in addition to critical analyses of the works of several authors, including in particular Geoffrey Chaucer.
1. Introduction to the Study of Language
2. The Historical Study of Language
3. Indo-European and the Prehistory of English
4. Reconstructing Meaning and Sound
5. Historical Linguistics and Studying Culture
6. The Beginnings of English
7. The Old English Worldview
8. Did the Normans Really Conquer English?
9. What Did the Normans Do to English?
10. Chaucer's English
11. Dialect Representations in Middle English
12. Medieval Attitudes toward Language
13. The Return of English as a Standard
14. The Great Vowel Shift and Modern English
15. The Expanding English Vocabulary
16. Early Modern English Syntax and Grammar
17. Renaissance Attitudes toward Teaching English
18. Shakespeare—Drama, Grammar, Pronunciation
19. Shakespeare—Poetry, Sound, Sense
20. The Bible in English
21. Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary
22. New Standards in English
23. Dictionaries and Word Histories
24. Values, Words, and Modernity
25. The Beginnings of American English
26. American Language from Webster to Mencken
27. American Rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln
28. The Language of the American Self
29. American Regionalism
30. American Dialects in Literature
31. The Impact of African-American English
32. An Anglophone World
33. The Language of Science
34. The Science of Language
35. Linguistics and Politics in Language Study
36. Conclusions and Provocations
2. The Historical Study of Language
3. Indo-European and the Prehistory of English
4. Reconstructing Meaning and Sound
5. Historical Linguistics and Studying Culture
6. The Beginnings of English
7. The Old English Worldview
8. Did the Normans Really Conquer English?
9. What Did the Normans Do to English?
10. Chaucer's English
11. Dialect Representations in Middle English
12. Medieval Attitudes toward Language
13. The Return of English as a Standard
14. The Great Vowel Shift and Modern English
15. The Expanding English Vocabulary
16. Early Modern English Syntax and Grammar
17. Renaissance Attitudes toward Teaching English
18. Shakespeare—Drama, Grammar, Pronunciation
19. Shakespeare—Poetry, Sound, Sense
20. The Bible in English
21. Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary
22. New Standards in English
23. Dictionaries and Word Histories
24. Values, Words, and Modernity
25. The Beginnings of American English
26. American Language from Webster to Mencken
27. American Rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln
28. The Language of the American Self
29. American Regionalism
30. American Dialects in Literature
31. The Impact of African-American English
32. An Anglophone World
33. The Language of Science
34. The Science of Language
35. Linguistics and Politics in Language Study
36. Conclusions and Provocations
General
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The History of the English Language DVDs: The Teaching Company (The Great Courses)
The History of the English Language DVDs: The Teaching Company (The Great Courses)
The History of the English Language DVDs: The Teaching Company (The Great Courses)
The History of the English Language DVDs: The Teaching Company (The Great Courses)
