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The Degradation Of Language And Music And Why We Should, Like, Care

by John McWhorter
language: english
Publisher: Random House, June of 2011 ‧
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Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone into reverse - taking our lead from America and the legacy of the 1960s, our culture increasingly privileges the oral over the written, spurning the art of elaborated, 'written'-style language in favour of returning to the state of a spoken culture.

Doing Our Own Thing

The Degradation Of Language And Music And Why We Should, Like, Care

by John McWhorter

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ISBN: 9781446473221
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: June of 2011
Language: English
Format: eBook
Categories: eBooks in English > Art > Music
eBooks in English > Dictionaries and Encyclopedias > English
EAN: 9781446473221
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John McWhorter

John McWhorter (EUA, 1965) é professor de Linguística, Estudos Americanos e História da Música na Columbia University. Colabora com o The New York Times, é editor na The Atlantic e apresenta o podcast Lexicon Valley, sobre língua. Já publicou artigos em orgãos de comunicação como The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Daily Beast, The New Republic e The Root. É autor de mais de 20 livros, nomeadamente Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter, The Power of Babel e Losing the Race.

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