Language and the mind

Language and the mind

Spencer D. Kelly

DVD - 2020

What is the species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of the past achievements and those still aspire to is language. Learn why language is the ultimate invention, one that has allowed changing the physical and social world around people in every conceivable way, and one that has fundamentally changed them, as well.

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Subjects
Language and languages > Origin.
Communication.
Thought and thinking.
Psycholinguistics.
Lectures.
Instructional films.
Educational films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Lectures
Instructional films
Educational films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company [2020]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Teaching Company
Main Author
Spencer D. Kelly (lecturer)
Corporate Author
Teaching Company (production company)
Item Description
"The Great courses, Topic: Literature & language ; Subtopic: Linguistics"--Cover.
"Course number 1623"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Course guidebooks laid in each container. Guidebooks contain outlines for each 30 minute lecture.
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Format
DVD.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook.
ISBN
9781629978673
  • Disc 1. Language in mind
  • Language as a system
  • Eleven linguistic universals
  • Communication in the animal kingdom
  • Genes, brains, and evolution
  • How the brain created language
  • Disc 2. Gesture and the origins of human language
  • Development: a mind under construction
  • Specializing in speech sounds
  • Navigating a world of words
  • Learning to play the game of language
  • Mastering the structure of language
  • Disc 3. The brain as a window into the mind
  • How the brain comprehends language
  • How the brain produces language
  • Dancing brains: the social side of language
  • How writing transformed the mind
  • Sign language: language in our hands
  • Disc 4. Embodied language: mind in body-body in mind
  • The multilingual mind
  • Does language shape thought?
  • Does culture shape language?
  • The benefits of bilingualism
  • How language makes us human.

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