Part 3. English in America and beyond : The Beginnings of American English. -- Making the American language from Noah Webster to H. L. Mencken. --The Rhetoric of independence form Jefferson to Lincoln. -- The Language of the American Self. -- American regionalism. -- American dialects in literature. -- The Impact of African-American English. -- An Anglophone world. --The Language of science : the changing nature of 20th century English. -- The Science of language: the study of language in the 20th century. -- Modern linguistics and the politics of language study. -- Conclusions and provocations.
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)46789201
Locations:
UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)
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