TTC - History of the English Language, 2nd Edition - Seth Lerer

Written by Seth Lerer
Read by Seth Lerer
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The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition, is Professor Seth Lerer’s revised and updated investigation of the remarkable history of English, from the powerful prose of King Alfred in the Middle Ages to the modern-day sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sixteen centuries ago a wave of settlers from northern Europe came to the British Isles speaking a mix of Germanic dialects thick with consonants and complex grammatical forms. Today we call that dialect Old English, the ancestor of the language nearly one in five people in the world speaks every day.

How did this ancient tongue evolve into the elegant idiom of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Twain, Melville, and other great writers? What features of modern English spelling and vocabulary link it to its Old English roots? How did English grammar become so streamlined? Why did its pronunciation undergo such drastic changes? How do we even know what English sounded like in the distant past? And how does English continue to develop to the present day?

36 Lectures
30 minutes / lecture

1 Introduction to the Study of Language
2 The Historical Study of Language
3 Indo-European and the Prehistory of English
4 Reconstructing Meaning and Sound
5 Historical Linguistics and Studying Culture
6 The Beginnings of English
7 The Old English Worldview
8 Did the Normans Really Conquer English?
9 What Did the Normans Do to English?
10 Chaucer’s English
11 Dialect Representations in Middle English
12 Medieval Attitudes toward Language
13 The Return of English as a Standard
14 The Great Vowel Shift and Modern English
15 The Expanding English Vocabulary
16 Early Modern English Syntax and Grammar
17 Renaissance Attitudes toward Teaching English
18 Shakespeare—Drama, Grammar, Pronunciation
19 Shakespeare—Poetry, Sound, Sense
20 The Bible in English
21 Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary
22 New Standards in English
23 Dictionaries and Word Histories
24 Values, Words, and Modernity
25 The Beginnings of American English
26 American Language from Webster to Mencken
27 American Rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln
28 The Language of the American Self
29 American Regionalism
30 American Dialects in Literature
31 The Impact of African-American English
32 An Anglophone World
33 The Language of Science
34 The Science of Language
35 Linguistics and Politics in Language Study
36 Conclusions and Provocations

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01 Introduction to the Study of Language.mp3 15.23 MBs
02 The Historical Study of Language.mp3 13.99 MBs
03 Indo-European and the Prehistory of English.mp3 13.02 MBs
04 Reconstructing Meaning and Sound.mp3 14.05 MBs
05 Historical Linguistics and Studying Culture.mp3 14.07 MBs
06 The Beginnings of English.mp3 13.85 MBs
07 The Old English Worldview.mp3 14 MBs
08 Did the Normans Really Conquer English.mp3 13.86 MBs
09 What Did the Normans Do to English.mp3 13.74 MBs
10 Chaucer’s English.mp3 13.71 MBs
11 Dialect Representations in Middle English.mp3 13.94 MBs
12 Medieval Attitudes toward Language.mp3 13.95 MBs
13 The Return of English as a Standard.mp3 14.26 MBs
14 The Great Vowel Shift and Modern English.mp3 13.81 MBs
15 The Expanding English Vocabulary.mp3 13.91 MBs
16 Early Modern English Syntax and Grammar.mp3 13.2 MBs
17 Renaissance Attitudes toward Teaching English.mp3 14.5 MBs
18 Shakespeare - Drama, Grammar, Pronunciation.mp3 13.67 MBs
19 Shakespeare - Poetry, Sound, Sense.mp3 14.38 MBs
20 The Bible in English.mp3 13.8 MBs
21 Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary.mp3 14.2 MBs
22 New Standards in English.mp3 13.93 MBs
23 Dictionaries and Word Histories.mp3 14.65 MBs
24 Values, Words, and Modernity.mp3 14.84 MBs
25 The Beginnings of American English.mp3 14.66 MBs
26 American Language from Webster to Mencken.mp3 14.04 MBs
27 American Rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln.mp3 14.4 MBs
28 The Language of the American Self.mp3 13.73 MBs
29 American Regionalism.mp3 14 MBs
30 American Dialects in Literature.mp3 14.22 MBs
31 The Impact of African-American English.mp3 15.16 MBs
32 An Anglophone World.mp3 14.68 MBs
33 The Language of Science.mp3 14.94 MBs
34 The Science of Language.mp3 13.62 MBs
35 Linguistics and Politics in Language Study.mp3 13.97 MBs
36 Conclusions and Provocations.mp3 13.76 MBs
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