Displaying 1 of 1 2020 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: Language and the mind. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2020] ©2020 Description: 4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (181 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) 4 3/4 in. digital optical NTSC video file DVD video Summary: What is the species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of the past achievements and those still aspire to is language. Learn why language is the ultimate invention, one that has allowed changing the physical and social world around people in every conceivable way, and one that has fundamentally changed them, as well. Series: The great courses. Literature & language. Linguistics Great courses (DVD) Subjects: Language and languages -- Origin. Communication. Thought and thinking. Psycholinguistics. Genre: Lectures. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Instructional films. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Other Author: Kelly, Spencer D., lecturer. Teaching Company, production company. Notes: Title from disc surface. Wide screen. "Course No. 1623"--Container. 24 lectures (30 min. each). Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook. Spencer Kelly, Colgate University. DVD. In English; closed-captioned. Contents: Language in mind -- Language as a system -- Eleven linguistic universals -- Communication in the animal kingdom -- Genes, brains, and evolution -- How the brain created language. Gesture and the origins of human language -- Development: a mind under construction -- Specializing in speech sounds -- Navigating a world of words -- Learning to play the game of language -- Mastering the structure of language. The brain as a window into the mind -- How the brain comprehends language -- How the brain produces language -- Dancing brains: the social side of language -- How writing transformed the mind -- Sign language: language in our hands. Embodied language: mind in body-body in mind -- The multilingual mind -- Does language shape thought? -- Does culture shape language? -- The benefits of bilingualism -- How language makes us human. ISBN: 9781629978673 1629978671 Publisher Number: ID1623A-01 PB1623A 1623 Other Number: 1159458281 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 850299 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 0 Call Number: GREAT DVD 401 Language Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
