TTC History of the English Language

Course Lecture Titles 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 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? 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. Throughout its history, English has been an unusually mutable language, readily accepting new terms and new ways of conveying meaning. Professor Lerer brings this second edition up-to-date by including discussions of the latest changes brought about through such phenomena as hip hop, e-mail, text messaging, and the world wide web.

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