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Title Understanding linguistics [videorecording] : the science of language / The Teaching Company.

Imprint Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl DVD Collection  DVD Great  part 3    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl DVD Collection  DVD Great  part 2    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl DVD Collection  DVD Great  part 1    ---  Available
Description 6 videodiscs (ca. 18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide.
Series The great courses, Science & mathematics
Great courses. Science & mathematics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references included in course guidebook.
Contents Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1. What is linguistics? ; Lecture 2. Sounds of language, consonants ; Lecture 3. Other sounds, vowels ; Lecture 4. In the head versus on the lips ; Lecture 5. How to make a word ; Lecture 6. Chomskyan Revolution -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Deep structure and surface structure ; Lecture 8. On-off switches of grammar ; Lecture 9. Shades of meaning and semantic roles ; Lecture 10. From sentence to storytelling ; Lecture 11. Language on its way to becoming a new one ; Lecture 12. Recovering languages of the past.
Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13. Where grammar comes from ; Lecture 14. Language change from old English to now ; Lecture 15. What is an impossible language? ; Lecture 16. How children learn to speak ; Lecture 17. How we learn language as adults ; Lecture 18. How you talk and how they talk -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. How class defines speech ; Lecture 20. Speaking differently, changing the language ; Lecture 21. Language and gender ; Lecture 22. Languages sharing the world, bilingualism ; Lecture 23. Languages sharing a sentence, code-switching ; Lecture 24. Rules of conversation.
Part 3: Disc 5. Lecture 25. What is this thing called language/ Lecture 26. Speech as action ; Lecture 27. Uses of talk from culture to culture ; Lecture 28. Does language channel thought? The evidence ; Lecture 29. Does language channel thought? New findings ; Lecture 30. Is language going to the dogs -- Disc 6. Lecture 31. Why languages are never perfect ; Lecture 32. Evolution of writing ; Lecture 33. Writing systems ; Lecture 34. Doing linguistics, with a head start ; Lecture 35. Doing linguistics, from the ground up ; Lecture 36. Evolution of language.
Performer Lectures by John McWhorter.
Summary Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by John McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, based on his courses in Linguistics.
System Details DVDs
Subject Language and languages.
Historical linguistics.
Linguistics.
DVD-Video discs.
Added Author McWhorter, John H.
Teaching Company.
Added Title Science of language
ISBN 1598034774
9781598034776
Music No. 2270 Teaching Company
PD2270-01 Teaching Company
PD2270-02 Teaching Company
PD2270-03 Teaching Company

 
    
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