Great courses

Compact disc

Presents lectures on the history of the English language

In 3 containers

Unabridged

Seth Lerer, lecturer, Stanford University

Lecture 1.

Introduction to the study of language --

lecture 2.

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.

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 --

lecture 12.

Medieval attitudes toward language

Lecture 13.

Return of English as a standard --

lecture 14.

Great vowel shift and modern English --

lecture 15.

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.

Bible in English --

lecture 21.

Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary --

lecture 22.

New standards in English --

lecture 23.

Dictionaries and word histories --

lecture 24.

Values, words and modernity

Lecture 25.

Beginnings of American English --

lecture 26.

American language from Webster Mencken --

lecture 27.

American rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln --

lecture 28.

Language of the American self --

lecture 29.

American regionalism --

lecture 30.

American dialects in literature --

lecture 31.

Impact of African-American English --

lecture 32.

An Anglophone world --

lecture 33.

Language of science --

lecture 34.

Science of language --

lecture 35.

Linguistics and politics in language study --

lecture 36.

Conclusions and provocations