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Doing Our Own Thing

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

by John McWhorter
language: english
Publisher: CORNERSTONE, November of 2005 ‧
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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

Property Description
ISBN: 9780099445357
Publisher: CORNERSTONE
Release Date: November of 2005
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 304
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Linguistics and Philology
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780099445357

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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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