Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

English in America : a linguistic history / Professor Natalie Schilling.

Publisher, Date:

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2016]

Description:

2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 106 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm)

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

DVD

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Trace the history of the English language from the first settlers of Jamestown to our modern era of migration, globalization, and Internet communication.

Series:

The great courses (DVD). Literature & Language. Linguistics

Great courses (DVD). Literature & language, Linguistics.

Subjects:

English language -- United States -- History.

English language -- Dialects -- United States.

Genre:

Lectures.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Other Author:

Schilling, Natalie, lecturer.

Teaching Company, publisher.

Other Title:

Linguistic history

Notes:

Title from container.

"Course no. 2774"--Container.

"12 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Accompanying guidebook: "English in America: a linguistic history, course guidebook".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-106).

Lecturer, Professor Natalie Schilling, Georgetown University.

DVD.

In English; closed-captioned.

Contents:

Defining American English dialects -- The foundations of American English -- From English in America to American English -- The rise of American language standards -- Where is general American English? -- Mapping American dialects -- Ethnicity and American English -- African American English -- Mobility, media, and contemporary English -- The history of American language policy -- Latino language and dialects in America -- Where is American English headed?

ISBN:

1629972487

9781629972480

9781501931215

1501931210

Publisher Number:

2274

ID2274A-01

PB2274A

PD2274A

Other Number:

940574603

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

797258

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

GREAT DVD 427.973 English