Part 2. Making modern English : The Return of English as a standard. -- How we speak: the great vowel shift and the making of modern English. -- What we say : The expanding English vocabulary. -- The Shape of modern English: changes in syntax and grammar. -- Renaissance attitudes toward teaching English. -- The Language of Shakespeare (1): Drama, grammar, and pronunciation. -- The Language of Shakespeare (2): Poetry, sound, and sense. -- The Bible in English.-- Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary. -- New Standards in English. -- Semantic change: Dictionaries and the histories of words. -- Values and words in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Summary:
"This course introduces the student to the history of the English language, from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples, through the literary and cultural documents of its 1500 year span, to the state of American speech of the present day"
Series:
Great courses on tape
OCLC:
(OCoLC)46789164
Locations:
UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)
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