مجموعه ویدئویی زبان انگلیسی زبانشناسی را بفهمید Understanding Linguistics

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. But what are these rules? How do they work? And how can knowing them enhance your experience of the world? The 36 lectures of Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language—taught by acclaimed linguist, author, and Professor John McWhorter from the Manhattan Institute—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.

Course Lecture Titles

۱. What Is Linguistics?
۲. The Sounds of Language—Consonants
۳. The Other Sounds—Vowels
۴. In the Head versus On the Lips
۵. How to Make a Word
۶. The Chomskyan Revolution
۷. Deep Structure and Surface Structure
۸. The On-Off Switches of Grammar
۹. Shades of Meaning and Semantic Roles
۱۰. From Sentence to Storytelling
۱۱. Language on Its Way to Becoming a New One
۱۲. Recovering Languages of the Past
۱۳. Where Grammar Comes From
۱۴. Language Change from Old English to Now
۱۵. What Is an Impossible Language?
۱۶. How Children Learn to Speak
۱۷. How We Learn Languages as Adults
۱۸. How You Talk and How They Talk
۱۹. How Class Defines Speech
۲۰. Speaking Differently, Changing the Language
۲۱. Language and Gender
۲۲. Languages Sharing the World—Bilingualism
۲۳. Languages Sharing a Sentence—Code-Switching
۲۴. The Rules of Conversation
۲۵. What Is This Thing Called Language?
۲۶. Speech as Action
۲۷. Uses of Talk from Culture to Culture
۲۸. Does Language Channel Thought? The Evidence
۲۹. Does Language Channel Thought? New Findings
۳۰. Is Language Going to the Dogs?
۳۱. Why Languages Are Never Perfect
۳۲. The Evolution of Writing
۳۳. Writing Systems
۳۴. Doing Linguistics—With a Head Start
۳۵. Doing Linguistics—From the Ground Up
۳۶. The Evolution of Language