the science of language McWhorter, John (John Hamilton) 1965- creator Teaching Company mixed material vau Chantilly, Virginia The Teaching Company 2008 monographic eng 6 videodiscs (approximately 18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 205 pages ; 19 cm). Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by John McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, based on his courses in Linguistics. 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 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. The rules of conversation, John McWhorter Course No. 2270 Part 2 contains lectures 13-24 of set. Education Teaching Educación Enseñanza Lingüística Lenguaje y lenguas Enseñanza Linguística histórica LB 14.6 M478u 2008 370 Social sciences 1598034774 9781598034776 190627 20230411090128.0 spa