English 102
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1. General Introduction: The Importance of the English Language in the 21st century
2. What is Language?
2.1. What is Language?
3. Noam Chomsky and the "Language Instinct" Debate
4. Language and the Brain
5. The Historical Study of Language: Methods and Approaches
6. The Indo-European Family of Languages
7. Reconstructing Sign, Meaning, and Sound: Semantics, Phonetics, Phonology
8. Historical Linguistics and the Study of Culture
9. The Beginnings of English: Germanic to Gothic
9.1. The Beginnings of English: Germanic to Gothic
10. Anglo-Saxon (Old) English
11. The Norman Invasion: Part One
11.1 The Norman Invasion: Part One (cont'd.)
12. The Norman Invasion: Part Two
13. The English of Geoffrey Chaucer
14. Literary Representations in Middle English
15. A Multilingual World: Medieval Attitudes Toward Language Change and Variation
16. The Return of English as Standard
17. The Great Vowel Shift
18. The Expanding English Vocabulary
19. Early Modern English: Syntax and Grammar
20. Renaissance Attitudes Toward Teaching English
21. The English of Shakespeare: Part One
22. The English of Shakespeare: Part Two
23. The English of the King James Bible
24. A Global Language: The Future of the English Language
Download Lecture on Scope, Objectives, and Requirements
To download, click on the lecture title below.
1. General Introduction: The Importance of the English Language in the 21st century
2. What is Language?
2.1. What is Language?
3. Noam Chomsky and the "Language Instinct" Debate
4. Language and the Brain
5. The Historical Study of Language: Methods and Approaches
6. The Indo-European Family of Languages
7. Reconstructing Sign, Meaning, and Sound: Semantics, Phonetics, Phonology
8. Historical Linguistics and the Study of Culture
9. The Beginnings of English: Germanic to Gothic
9.1. The Beginnings of English: Germanic to Gothic
10. Anglo-Saxon (Old) English
11. The Norman Invasion: Part One
11.1 The Norman Invasion: Part One (cont'd.)
12. The Norman Invasion: Part Two
13. The English of Geoffrey Chaucer
14. Literary Representations in Middle English
15. A Multilingual World: Medieval Attitudes Toward Language Change and Variation
16. The Return of English as Standard
17. The Great Vowel Shift
18. The Expanding English Vocabulary
19. Early Modern English: Syntax and Grammar
20. Renaissance Attitudes Toward Teaching English
21. The English of Shakespeare: Part One
22. The English of Shakespeare: Part Two
23. The English of the King James Bible
24. A Global Language: The Future of the English Language