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Mobility, Media, and Contemporary English

Year

2016

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

30m

Rating

TVPG

Written By

Natalie Schilling

Publication Information

The Great Courses

Summary

Moving into 20th-century America, examine how changes in movement patterns of peoples, and of information, have affected language change. Consider population movements from rural to urban to suburban-and then back to the city again; the Civil Rights Movement; and the increasing influence of Hollywood media and the dawn of the Internet age.

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