The history of the English language

Pt. 1. Lecture 1. Introduction to the study of language

Lecture 2. The historical study of language

Lecture 3. Indo-European and the prehistory of English

Lecture 4. Reconstructing meaning and sound

Lecture 5. Historical linguistics and studying culture

Lecture 6. The beginnings of English

Lecture 7. The Old English worldview

Lecture 8. Did the Normans really conquer English?

Lecture 9. What did the Normans do to English?

Lecture 10. Chaucer's English

Lecture 11. Dialect representations in Middle English

Lecture12. Medieval attitudes toward language.

Pt. 2. Lecture 13. The Return of English as a standard

Lecture 14. The great vowel shift and modern English

Lecture 15. The expanding English vocabulary

Lecture 16. Early modern English syntax and grammar

Lecture 17. Renaissance attitudes toward teaching English

Lecture 18. Shakespeare : drama, grammar, pronunciation

Lecture 19. Shakespeare : poetry, sound, sense

Lecture 20. The Bible in English

Lecture 21. Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary

Lecture 22. New Standards in English

Lecture 23. Dictionaries and the word histories

Lecture 24. Values, words, and modernity.

Pt. 3. Lecture 25. The beginnings of American English

Lecture 26. American language from Webster to Mencken

Lecture 27. American rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln

Lecture 28. The language of the American Self

Lecture 29. American regionalism

Lecture 30. American dialects in literature

Lecture 31. The impact of African-American English

Lecture 32. An Anglophone world

Lecture 33. The language of science

Lecture 34. The science of language

Lecture 35. Linguistics and politics in language study

Lecture 36. Conclusions and provocations.