The Story of Human Language. Part 3 of 3

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Compact discs.
Part 3 of 3 parts. Contains the lectures 25-36 of 36 lectures on the history of language.
Guidebook includes notes and outline, maps, timeline, glossary and bibliographical references.
Unabridged.
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.
Lectures 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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