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Language and languages.
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McWhorter, John H.
Linguistics.
Language and languages.
MARC Display
Language
A to Z [videorecording (
DVD
)] / Professor John McWhorter.
by
McWhorter, John H.
Teaching Company, 2020.
Call #:
DVD
410 M177L
Subjects
Linguistics
.
Language
and languages.
Series
Great
courses
(
DVD
).
Literature
&
language
.
Linguistics
.
Great
courses
(
DVD
).
ISBN:
9781629979786
Alternate title:
Great
Courses
.
Language
A to Z [videorecording (
DVD
)]
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)] /
Description:
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col., 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 151 p. : ill. ; 19 cm).
Notes:
Course No. 20010.
"24 lectures/15 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Home use only.
Closed-captioned.
Contents:
Disc 1. A for Aramic -- B for baby mama -- C for compounds -- D for double negatives -- E for etymology -- F for first words -- G for Greek alphabet -- H for Hobbits -- I for island -- J for Jamaican -- K for Ket -- L for like -- Disc 2. M for Maltese -- N for native American English -- O for oldsters in cartoons -- P for plurals, Q for quiz -- R for R-lessness -- S for she -- T for tone -- U for understand -- V for vocabulary -- W for what's up, doc? -- X for !X©đ©æ, Y for Yiddish -- Z for Zed.
Performers:
Lecturer: Professor John McWhorter,PhD, Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature
, Columbia University.
Summary:
"Embark on an insightful journey into the quirks, curiosities, and intricacies of how our
language
works"--Container.
There's a lot that's quirky and intriguing about how human
language
works, and much of it is downright fun to learn about. Here's a delightful way to get access, bite-sized introductions to
language
in
Language
A to Z. These twenty-four fifteen-minute lectures by Professor John McWhorter, one of the best-known popularizers of
language
, use the English alphabet as a unique, offbeat way to let viewers hopscotch through some of the field's major topics, hot-button issues, curious factoids, and more.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
Holds:
1
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Item type
Status
Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD 410 M177L
Adult Dvds-21 Days
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