Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language
by McWhorter, John
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Chantilly, Virginia: The Great Courses, 2008. DVDs. As New. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4. Course Guidebook is included with 36 Lectures in three parts package is still in the original shrink-wrapped cellophane. We all use language every day of our lives. Language, regardless of the particular dialect spoken, is the tool we use to express our wants, our needs, and our feelings. Recently, many experts who study language have become convinced by an idea about this remarkable human trait that was, only a few decades ago, utterly revolutionary. These experts believe that the capacity for spoken language and the rules for its structure are not cultural but universal a set of rules shared by humans in every culture and that even may be hardwired into our brains. Moreover, these rules apply regardless of which of the world's 6,000 languages are being spoken. The 36 lectures of Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language taught by acclaimed linguist, author, and professor John McWhorter from Columbia University are your opportunity to take a revealing journey through the fascinating terrain of linguistics. You focus on the scientific aspects of human language that were left out of any classes you may have taken in English or a foreign language, and you emerge from your journey with a newfound appreciation of the mysterious machinery built into all of us an appreciation likely to surface time and again in your everyday life. Professor McWhorter explains and illustrates the critical elements and purposes of language, from its most basic building blocks to its uses as a nuanced social tool. You'll also meet many of the individuals who have most influenced our scientific understanding of language. The business of linguists isn't policing language, correcting your grammar, or acting as a translator; instead, linguists devote themselves to the scientific study of human language. Undoubtedly, you'll find the insights from this course surfacing whenever you experience the language around you.
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- Title
- Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language
- Author
- McWhorter, John
- Format/Binding
- DVDs
- Book Condition
- New As New
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- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 1598034774
- ISBN 13
- 9781598034776
- Publisher
- The Great Courses
- Place of Publication
- Chantilly, Virginia
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 5 1/4" x 7 3/4
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