The history of the English language

Content: Volume 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. Introduction to the study of language 
 Lecture 2. The historical study of language --
Disc 2.  Lecture 3. Indo-European and the prehistory of English 
 Lecture 4. Reconstructing meaning and sound --
Disc. 3. Lecture 5. Historical linguistics and studying culture 
 Lecture 6. The beginnings of English --
Disc 4. Lecture 7. The Old English worldview 
 Lecture 8. Did the Normans really conquer English? --
Disc 5. Lecture 9. What did the Normans do to English? 
 Lecture 10. Chaucer\'s English --
Disc 6. Lecture 11. Dialect representations in Middle English 
 Lecture12. Medieval attitudes toward language --
Volume 2. Disc 7. [Lecture] 13. The Return of English as a standard 
 [Lecture] 14. The great vowel shift and modern English --
Disc 8. [Lecture] 15. The expanding English vocabulary 
 [Lecture] 16. Early modern English syntax and grammar --
Disc 9. [Lecture] 17. Renaissance attitudes toward teaching English 
 [Lecture] 18. Shakespeare: drama, grammar, pronunciation --
Disc 10, [Lecture] 19. Shakespeare: poetry, sound, sense 
 [Lecture] 20. The Bible in English --
Disc 11. [Lecture] 21. Samuel Johnson and his dictionary 
 [Lecture] 22. New Standards in English --
Disc 12. [Lecture] 23. Dictionaries and the word histories 
 [Lecture] 24. Values, words, and modernity --
Volume 3. Disc 13. [Lecture] 25. The beginnings of American English 
 [Lecture] 26. American language from Webster to Mencken --
Disc 14. [Lecture] 27. American rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln 
 [Lecture] 28. The language of the American Self --
Disc 15. [Lecture] 29. American regionalism 
 [Lecture] 30. American dialects in literature --
Disc 16. [Lecture] 31. The impact of African-American English 
 [Lecture] 32. An Anglophone world --
Disc 17. [Lecture] 33. The language of science 
 [Lecture] 34. The science of language --
Disc 18. [Lecture] 35. Linguistics and politics in language study 
 [Lecture] 36. Conclusions and provocations.