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Popular Linguistics (John McWhorter)
The Great Courses
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2023 · score 1.0
A lecture series by linguist John McWhorter introducing popular linguistics, covering how languages work and change for a general audience. Commenters describe it as part of a larger set of his Great Courses lectures on language.
Commenters call McWhorter an engaging, highly entertaining lecturer whose language lectures are very informative.
Humanities & Social Sciencebeginnerpaidvideo lectures#linguistics#language change#mcwhorter#popular science
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I'd highly recommended John McWhorter's lectures to anyone interested in languages. I've listened to three or four of his popular-linguistics courses. There's a bit of overlap in material but I found all of them to be very informative and highly entertaining. He's such an engaging lecturer.
Edit: I'm referring to his Great Courses series. I've just looked them up and the list prices are silly. I don't know if that's still an option, but I got the audio versions on Audible for very little money.