The History of the English Language Parts 1-3, 2nd Edition

This lecture series is taught by Professor Seth Lerer of Stanford University. The lectures are: Introduction to the Study of Language, The Historical Study of Language, Pre-history of English, Reconstruction Meaning and Sound, Words and Worlds, The Beginnings of English, Old English, Changing Language, Conquering Language, Chaucer's English, Dialect Jokes and Literary Representation in the Middle English, A Multilingual World, The Return of English as a Standard, How We Speak, What We Say, Renaissance Attitudes Toward Teaching English, The Language of Shakespeare (Part 1), The Language of Shakespeare (Part 2), The Bible in English, Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary, New Standards in English, Semantic Change, Values and Words in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, The Beginnings of American English, Making the American Language, The Rhetoric of Independence from Jefferson to Lincoln, The Language of the American Self, American Regionalism, American Dialects in Literature, The Impact of African-American English, An Anglophone World, The Language Science, Modern Linguistics and the Politics of Language Study, and Conclusions and Provocations.