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Season 1

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  • TheTVDB.com Season ID 1991014
  • Created March 20, 2022
  • Modified September 14, 2024
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S01E01 Introduction to the Study of Language
February 25, 2008
The Great Courses
 30
S01E02 The Historical Study of Language
March 20, 2022
S01E03 Indo-European and the Prehistory of English
March 20, 2022
S01E04 Reconstructing Meaning and Sound
March 20, 2022
S01E05 Historical Linguistics and Studying Culture
March 20, 2022
S01E06 The Beginnings of English
March 20, 2022
S01E07 The Old English Worldview
March 20, 2022
S01E08 Did the Normans Really Conquer English?
March 20, 2022
S01E09 What Did the Normans Do to English
March 20, 2022
S01E10 Chaucer's English
March 20, 2022
S01E11 Dialect Representations in Middle English
March 20, 2022
S01E12 Medieval Attitudes toward Language
March 20, 2022
S01E13 The Return of English as a Standard
March 20, 2022
S01E14 The Great Vowel Shift and Modern English
March 20, 2022
S01E15 The Expanding English Vocabulary
March 20, 2022
S01E16 Early Modern English Syntax and Grammar
March 20, 2022
S01E17 Renaissance Attitudes toward Teaching English
March 20, 2022
S01E18 Shakespeare--Drama, Grammar, Pronunciation
March 20, 2022
S01E19 Shakespeare--Poetry, Sound, Sense
March 20, 2022
S01E20 The Bible in English
March 20, 2022
S01E21 Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary
March 20, 2022
S01E22 New Standards in English
March 20, 2022
S01E23 Dictionaries and World Histories
March 20, 2022
S01E24 Values, Words, and Modernity
March 20, 2022
S01E25 The Beginnings of American English
March 20, 2022
S01E26 American Language from Webster to Mencken
April 1, 2022
S01E27 American Rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln
April 1, 2022
S01E28 The Language of the American Self
April 1, 2022
S01E29 American Regionalism
April 1, 2022
S01E30 American Dialects in Literature
April 1, 2022
S01E31 The Impact of African-American English
April 1, 2022
S01E32 An Anglophone World
April 1, 2022
S01E33 The Language of Science
April 1, 2022
S01E34 The Science of Language
April 1, 2022
S01E35 Linguistics and Politics of Language Study
April 1, 2022
S01E36 Conclusions and Provocations
series finale
April 1, 2022

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