![]() McWhorter's smooth and informative presentation is backed by a wealth of supplementary materials, including a course book containing the full transcript, overview, outline, glossary, suggested bibliography, and more. ![]() written language, Ebonics, and language death. Comprised of three sections and 12 lectures each, this social science course from The Teaching Company's first-rate lecture series starts out with a discussion contrasting communication in the animal kingdom (between bees, apes, and parrots) and language-based exchanges between humans, before moving on to cover the construction of language, language families, dialects, multilingualism, spoken vs. John McWhorter of New York's Manhattan Institute, The Story of Human Language examines the definition of language, how it is studied by linguists, and how it has evolved-and continues to evolve-from prehistory to present day. ![]()
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