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The Story of Human Language Part 1 of 3

McWhorter, John H. Book on CD - 2004 BOCD 417.7 McW Oversize 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.7 out of 5

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36 lectures (30 min. each) on the history of language.
Guidebook includes notes and outline, timeline, glossary and bibliographical references.
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.
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 -- 24. Language interrupted.
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 36. Finale, master class.
Lecture delivered by John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute.
In-depth discussions about the development of human language, showing how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today. Discover how different languages come to be; why there is not a single language; how languages change; how some languages become extinct; and, discover current controversies in linguistics.

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PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 18 sound discs (ca. 1080 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 201 pages ; 19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1565859472 (set) :

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Teaching Company.

SUBJECTS
Historical linguistics.
Linguistics.