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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     McWhorter, John H.     Subjects     Linguistics.     Language and languages.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McWhorter, John H.       by title:      Language A to Z [vid...       by call number:      DVD 410 M177L     Search the Web     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   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Feature DVDs DVD 410 M177L Adult Dvds-21 Days Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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