HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 2ND EDITION.37 VIDEO FILES IN KARACHI

History Of The English Language, 2nd Edition.37 video files just 2500 rupees contact or sms me 0312 7698991 free home delivery History of the English Language, 2nd Edition 36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture Course No. 2250 Taught by Seth Lerer Stanford University Ph.D., University of Chicago COURSE DESCRIPTION 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 The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition, is Professor Seth Lerer?s revised and updated investigation of the remarkable history of English, Throughout its history Are you a logophile Then you will find these 36 half-hour lectures endlessly fascinating and immensely rewarding. Hear the Sound of English over the Centuries Nu sculon herigean heofonrices Weard Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote To be, or not to be: that is the question The first is the opening of Caedmon?s Hymn, the earliest extant poem in Old English, composed around the year A.D. 680. The Great Vowel Shift and More * Pronunciation: * Grammar and Morphology: * Meaning (Semantic Change) * Attitudes toward Language Change: From English to American Experience a Great Civilization through Its Words Course Lecture Titles ********************* 36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture 01. Introduction to the Study of Language 02. The Historical Study of Language 03. Indo ? European and the Prehistory of English 04. Reconstructing Meaning and Sound 05. Historical Linguistics and Studying Culture 06. The Beginnings of English 07. The Old English Worldview 08. Did the Normans Really Conquer English? 09. 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 Views: 163