Liberal Arts and the Humanities
119 Linguistics
WISC-Online Linguistics Learning Objects (CC BY-NC)
A collection of learning objects on various topics in Linguistics.
Languages and Worldview (CC BY-NC-SA)
Asking and answering questions about what culture entails and examines the fundamental properties and intertwining nature of language and culture. This text explores linguistic relativity, lexical differences among languages and intercultural communication, including high and low contexts.
Linguistics for Teachers of English (CC BY-NC-SA)
The primary goals of this text are to acquaint prospective teachers of English with certain aspects of the history, structure, and use of the English Language. Through considering the nature of the English language; how language and culture are interconnected as well as how it is acquired and how and why it changes, readers will come to a fuller understanding of sociolinguistics.
Generative Linguistics (CC BY-NC-SA)
A series of eleven videos dealing with topics on generative syntax.
The Origins of the Scots Language (CC BY)
A fantastic video introduction to the tongues, peoples and events that shaped the earliest history of the Scots language with versions narrated both in Scots and English.
