Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language Episode # 4 Civilization to Colonization
2015
Computer Files, Websites
Writing is a relative latecomer to the history of language. This program tracks its emergence in Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica and its down through the millennia via conquest—usually violent, sometimes benign—and colonization. The creation of creoles and pidgins resulting from the interaction of specific populations is also addressed, and speculation is made about the first things to be written down. Noam Chomsky; Peter , coeditor of The Worlds Writing Systems; the Manhattan Institutes John McWhorter; MITs Michel DeGraff; and Salikoko Mufwene, of The University of Chicago, contribute.
Author:
Brown, Christene, filmmakerKanopy (Firm)
Imprint:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Notes:
Title from title frames.In Process Record.Originally produced by Syncopated Productions in 2007.In English
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
Undetermined
Index terms:
AnthropologyESL and Languages
BRN:
413219
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/139279/external-image - Cover Image