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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       Subjects     English language -- History.     English language -- Etymology.     English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100.     English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500.     English language -- United States -- History.     Linguistics.     Browse Catalog       by title:      The history of the E...         MARC Display

The history of the English language [digital videodisc] / Seth Lerer. Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2008. Subjects English language -- History.   English language -- Etymology.   English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100.   English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500.   English language -- United States -- History.   Linguistics. ISBN:  9781598034028 1598034022 Series:  Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language. Description:  6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 218 pages ; 20 cm). Edition:  2nd ed. Contents:  pt. 1. Lecture 1. Introduction to the study of language -- Lecture 2. The historical study of language -- Lecture 3. Indo-European and the prehistory of English -- Lecture 4. Reconstructing meaning and sound -- Lecture 5. Historical linguistics and studying culture -- Lecture 6. The beginnings of English -- Lecture 7. The Old English worldview -- Lecture 8. Did the Normans really conquer English? -- Lecture 9. What did the Normans do to English? -- Lecture 10. Chaucer's English -- Lecture 11. Dialect representations in Middle English -- Lecture12. Medieval attitudes toward language. pt. 2. Lecture 13. The Return of English as a standard -- Lecture 14. The great vowel shift and modern English -- Lecture 15. The expanding English vocabulary -- Lecture 16. Early modern English syntax and grammar -- Lecture 17. Renaissance attitudes toward teaching English -- Lecture 18. Shakespeare : drama, grammar, pronunciation -- Lecture 19. Shakespeare : poetry, sound, sense -- Lecture 20. The Bible in English -- Lecture 21. Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary -- Lecture 22. New Standards in English -- Lecture 23. Dictionaries and the word histories -- Lecture 24. Values, words, and modernity. pt. 3. Lecture 25. The beginnings of American English -- Lecture 26. American language from Webster to Mencken -- Lecture 27. American rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln -- Lecture 28. The language of the American Self -- Lecture 29. American regionalism -- Lecture 30. American dialects in literature -- Lecture 31. The impact of African-American English -- Lecture 32. An Anglophone world -- Lecture 33. The language of science -- Lecture 34. The science of language -- Lecture 35. Linguistics and politics in language study -- Lecture 36. Conclusions and provocations. Requests:  0 Summary:  This course introduces the student to the history of the English language, from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples, through the literary and cultural documents of its 1500 year span, to the state of American speech of the present day.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library DVD -- DVD, Nonfiction, AV Room DVD NF Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library DVD -- DVD, Nonfiction   In Cataloging Add Copy to MyList

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