Seth Lerer
History of the English Language, 2nd Edition

Seth Lerer - History of the English Language, 2nd Edition

  • Release date: 2008
  • Genre: Lecture
  • Format: MP3
  • Duration: 18:28:15
  • not rated
  • Added June 19, 2009

Tracks

1. Introduction to the Study of Languagenot rated33:15
2. The Historical Study of Languagenot rated30:33
3. Indo-European and the Prehistory of Englishnot rated28:25
4. Reconstructing Meaning and Soundnot rated30:40
5. Historical Linguistics and Studying Culturenot rated30:43
6. The Beginnings of Englishnot rated30:14
7. The Old English Worldviewnot rated30:33
8. Did the Normans Really Conquer English?not rated30:15
9. What Did the Normans Do to English?not rated29:59
10. Chaucer's Englishnot rated29:56
11. Dialect Representations in Middle Englishnot rated30:25
12. Medieval Attitudes toward Languagenot rated30:27
13. The Return of English as a Standardnot rated31:08
14. The Great Vowel Shift and Modern Englishnot rated30:08
15. The Expanding English Vocabularynot rated30:22
16. Early Modern English Syntax and Grammarnot rated28:48
17. Renaissance Attitudes toward Teaching Englishnot rated31:39
18. Shakespeare—Drama, Grammar, Pronunciationnot rated29:51
19. Shakespeare—Poetry, Sound, Sensenot rated31:24
20. The Bible in Englishnot rated30:07
21. Samuel Johnson and His Dictionarynot rated31:00
22. New Standards in Englishnot rated30:24
23. Dictionaries and Word Historiesnot rated31:59
24. Values, Words, and Modernitynot rated32:24
25. The Beginnings of American Englishnot rated32:00
26. American Language from Webster to Menckennot rated30:38
27. American Rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincolnnot rated31:26
28. The Language of the American Selfnot rated29:58
29. American Regionalismnot rated30:34
30. American Dialects in Literaturenot rated31:02
31. The Impact of African-American Englishnot rated33:05
32. An Anglophone Worldnot rated32:03
33. The Language of Sciencenot rated32:36
34. The Science of Languagenot rated29:43
35. Linguistics and Politics in Language Studynot rated30:29
36. Conclusions and Provocationsnot rated30:02
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