History of the English language: Part 3 of 3
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Part III. Lecture 25. The beginnings of American English

lecture 26. Making the American language, from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken

lecture 27. The rhetoric of independence from Jefferson to Lincoln

lecture 28. The language of the American self

lecture 29. American regionalism

lecture 30. American dialects in literature

lecture 31. The impact of African-American English

lecture 32. An Anglophone world

lecture 33. The language of science, the changing nature of 20th century English

lecture 34. The science of language, the study of language in the 20th century

lecture 35. Modern linguistics and the politics of language study

lecture 36. Conclusions and provocations.