The Story of Human Language (Teaching Company/The Great Courses)
Description
This engaging lecture series explores how human language emerged, evolved, and diversified into the thousands of languages spoken around the world today. It examines the forces that shape language—including migration, cultural contact, geography, social change, and historical transformation—while illuminating why languages continually shift in sound, grammar, and meaning. Along the way, it challenges common assumptions about “primitive” languages, linguistic correctness, and the relationship between language and thought. Accessible and richly informative, the course offers a broad introduction to linguistics and a fascinating perspective on one of humanity’s most distinctive achievements.
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audiobook
The Teaching Company
Published Jan 1, 2004
ISBN: 9781565859470
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First Published
2004
Language
eng
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