Catalog

Language and Technology

Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (10 min., 27 sec)) : sound, color.
Publisher:	[Place of publication not identified] : Video Education America (VEA), [2014]
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸Language evolves to reflect a changing world, and technology has had an incredible impact on the way ... we live and communicate. This engaging and informative program compares the way a person might have communicated in 1960 to the way we communicate today by following a young writer on vacation then and now. In the 1960s, she uses postcards and letters to correspond with friends back home, while today it's text messages and emails. Audiences will gain an understanding of how vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and spelling are affected by communication technologies and why these changes have occurred. Read More

A Short History of the English Language

Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (12 min., 1 sec)) : sound, color.
Publisher:	[Place of publication not identified] : Video Education America (VEA), [2014]
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸English, an incredibly rich and complex language, also has the largest vocabulary. This program ... provides an overview of four key periods in the chronological history of the English language and how events in each period shaped the words, spelling, pronunciation, and grammar of English. We explore the cultural and social influences on Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English. Excerpts from Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, and Shakespeare illustrate the changing structure of English over time. This is an ideal resource for introducing a vast topic in an accessible and simplified way. Read More

Borrowed Words : How Languages Influence Each Other

Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (11 min., 58 sec)) : sound, color.
Publisher:	[Place of publication not identified] : Video Education America (VEA), [2014]
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Films on Demand
▸As much as 80 percent of the English vocabulary has been borrowed from other languages. Words enter ... the language when English speakers interact with people-through exploration, trade, empire building, education, the arts, and technology-who speak other languages. This program investigates the wealth of English words and phrases stemming from Indian, Greek, Latin, and Japanese origins, as well as the influence of English on other languages. Packed with interesting words and anecdotes, this is an ideal resource to better understand the complex and fascinating ways that English has evolved into the rich, expressive language we know today. Read More

From dialect to standard : English in England, 1154-1776

Description:	xix, 300 p. : ill., maps.
Publisher:	Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark ; 2005.
ISBN:	9789027272751 (electronic bk.)
Electronic resource	Access for Phillips Academy via Ebook Central