The Story of Human Language / John McWhorter ; The Teaching Company.
Par : McWhorter, John H | Manhattan Institute.
Collaborateur(s) : The Teaching Company.
Collection : The Great Courses ; Literature and Language ; Linguistics. Éditeur : Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, 2004Édition : 1st ed.Description :6 DVDs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course Guidebook (201 p. : ill. ; 19 cm).Sujet(s) : Literature | Language | Linguistics | Historical Linguistics | Human HistoryRessources en ligne : Publisher's Website. | Check the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) catalog.Type de document | Site actuel | Collection | Cote | Numéro de copie | Statut | Date d'échéance | Code à barres |
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Matériaux mélangés | CR Julien-Couture RC (Learning) General Stacks | Non-fiction | SPE GRE 3 (Parcourir l'étagère) | 1 (1/6 DVD) | Not For Loan | A024043 | |
Matériaux mélangés | CR Julien-Couture RC (Learning) General Stacks | Non-fiction | SPE GRE 3 (Parcourir l'étagère) | 1 (2/6 DVD) | Not For Loan | A024044 | |
Matériaux mélangés | CR Julien-Couture RC (Learning) General Stacks | Non-fiction | SPE GRE 3 (Parcourir l'étagère) | 1 (3/6 DVD) | Not For Loan | A024045 | |
Matériaux mélangés | CR Julien-Couture RC (Learning) General Stacks | Non-fiction | SPE GRE 3 (Parcourir l'étagère) | 1 (4/6 DVD) | Not For Loan | A024046 | |
Matériaux mélangés | CR Julien-Couture RC (Learning) General Stacks | Non-fiction | SPE GRE 3 (Parcourir l'étagère) | 1 (5/6 DVD) | Not For Loan | A024047 | |
Matériaux mélangés | CR Julien-Couture RC (Learning) General Stacks | Non-fiction | SPE GRE 3 (Parcourir l'étagère) | 1 (6/6 DVD) | Not For Loan | A024048 | |
Matériaux mélangés | CR Julien-Couture RC (Learning) General Stacks | Non-fiction | SPE GRE 3 (Parcourir l'étagère) | 1 (Course Guidebook) | Not For Loan | A024042 |
Includes 36 x 30 min. lectures.
Also Includes Course Guidebook.
The Course Guidebook includes a glossary and bibliographical references.
"Dr. John McWhorter, one of America's leading linguists and a frequent commentator on network television and National Public Radio, addresses these and other questions as he takes you on an in-depth, 36-lecture tour of the development of human language, showing how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago has evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today." (Publisher's Website)
CONTENTS:
DISC 1
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
DISC 2
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
DISC 3
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
DISC 4
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
Lecture 24. Language Interrupted
DISC 5
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
DISC 6 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
Lecture 36. Finale - Master Class
"Dr. John McWhorter, one of America's leading linguists and a frequent commentator on network television and National Public Radio, addresses these and other questions as he takes you on an in-depth, 36-lecture tour of the development of human language, showing how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago has evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today." (Publisher's Website)
DVD CONTENTS:
DISC 1
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
DISC 2
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
DISC 3
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
DISC 4
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
Lecture 24. Language Interrupted
DISC 5
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
DISC 6
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
Lecture 36. Finale - Master Class
COURSE GUIDEBOOK CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography
Course Scope
LECTURE GUIDES
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
Lecture 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
Lecture 36: Finale - Master Class
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
Language Maps
Timeline
Glossary
Bibliography
Not rated.
DVD, region 1.
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