Travelling through time with words: A history of the English language
- Type gastles
- op school
- Taal
- Engels
- Lesduur
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1 lesuur (50 min.)
- Interesse(s)
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cultuur, geschiedenis, religie en filosofie
taal, literatuur en communicatie - Docent
- Thijs Porck (University Lecturer)
NB: deze gastles is niet meer aan te vragen voor het cursusjaar 2021-2022
The English language has one of the most richest vocabularies in the world. In it, we can see various traces of the language’s history. In this lecture, we will look at the history of the English language through its words and see how various historical events, including the arrival of the Vikings in the early Middle Ages and the Hundred Years’ War in the late Middle Ages impacted on the development of English.