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1	Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, this work focuses on its strange and wonderful grammar. Delving into provocative topics and more, "Our Magnificent Bastard Language" distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. see all copies from $3.89! new only from $6.31! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist A professor of linguistics examines what he sees as defeatism and victimology within the African-American community. see all copies from $2.59! new only from $3.47! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist In this work, the author shares his expertise as a linguist to introduce us to Russonorsk, a creole of Russian and Norwegian once spoken by trading fur trappers in the summer, the ways in which Yiddish, a dialect of German, has been influenced by the grammar of Polish and a dialect of an Australian aboriginal language which only has three verbs. ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $7.70! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist John McWhorter believes that as English, both its written and its spoken aspects, has become devalued, we are the poorer for it. Echoing Orwell's dictum that bad writing can lead to fuzzy thinking, McWhorter sees the situation as an unfortunate one, afflicting English-speakers of all nationalities and types, from politician George W. Bush to poet ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Doing Our Own Thing more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist In "Doing Our Own Thing," critically acclaimed linguist and cultural critic John McWhorter traces the precipitous decline of language in contemporary America, arguing persuasively that casual, everyday speech has conquered the formal in all arenas, from oratory to poetry to everyday journalismaand has even had dire consequences for our musical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies
6	Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist John McWhorter returns to the explosive dialogue begun in his "New York Times" bestseller "Losing the Race" and raises the stakes in a provocative new book where he argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist McWhorter is one of the most original and provocative thinkers on the issue of race in America today. He argues that although African-Americans stress hard work and initiative in private, they have assumed the mantle of victimhood in the eyes of the public and have thereby created a distorted meaning of what it is to be "authentically black." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
8	All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hop--and why its popularity proves that black America must overhaul its politics. see all copies from $2.38! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a 'Pure' Standard English more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist A barbed rebuttal to the conservative view that popular culture is destroying the English language.. Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing--not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions ... see all copies from $5.90! new only from $8.20! \| SVS
10	Defining Creole more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist This volume gathers the last ten years worth of published articles on creole languages and their origins by John H. McWhorter, a unique and often controversial scholar in the field. The articles fall into roughly three categories: defending his hypothesis that creole languages are synchronically distinguishable from older grammars, addressing the ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
11 view cover	Losing the Race: Selfsabotage in Black America more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist A professor of linguistics examines what he sees as defeatism and victimology within the African-American community. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist Arguing that speech deviation from "Standard" American English is not wrong, McWhorter focuses on classroom applications to offer teachers, teacher educators and administrators useful basic language principles commonly accepted by linguists, but rarely disseminated to the general public. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $19.72!
13 view cover	The Word on the Street more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist While the more conservative-minded language scholars lament the slide of American English into a hodgepodge of poor grammar and regional dialects, John H. McWhorter celebrates this evolution. The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable about American English , deflates any rigid conceptions of American English; instead, McWhorter urges readers to look ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
14	Cowboy Fiddler more books like this by Frankie McWhorter, William W. Savage, Jr. (Designer), John R Erickson (Designer) add to wishlist 'If you like cowboys, or if you like country fiddling, you'll enjoy [this] story. If you like both, you're doubly in luck, for McWhorter is an unusual combination: a working cowboy and a working fiddler' - Elmer Kelton. A cowboy, a ranch manager, an alumnus of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, and the leader of a western-swing band, Frankie McWhorter's ... see all copies from $2.59! new only from $14.75! \| first editions
15 view cover	Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we speak). But linguists generally swat down claims that certain languages are ... see all copies from $49.75! new only from $49.75!
16 view cover	Horse Fixin': Forty Years of Working with Problem Horses more books like this by Frankie McWhorter, John R Erickson add to wishlist 'Horses aren't born with bad habits. They learn them from people' - Frankie McWhorter. In this memoir, Frankie reminisces about horses and horsemen he has known and discusses his innovative, unconventional approach to horsemanship. Founded on intelligence, compassion, experience, and a profound practical understanding of a horse's mind, his ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $5.77! \| SVS
17 view cover	Cowboy Fiddler in Bob Wills' Band more books like this by Frankie McWhorter, Lanny Fiel (Introduction by), John R Erickson add to wishlist Frankie McWhorter grew up in Bob Wills Country and bought his first fiddle with his cowboy wages in 1950. He played with Clyde Chesser and the Texas Village Boys and the Miller Brothers Band before being asked to join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. McWhorter tells stories of touring with these bands and of his hours spent listening to Wills ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $12.51! \| SVS
18 view cover	Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering Birth of Plantation more books like this by John H McWhorter add to wishlist John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this exploration of the origins of plantation creole. Using various data - linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical - he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. That model maintains that plantation creole languages emerged because African ... see all copies from $35.90! new only from $60.90! \| SVS
19 view cover	Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, this work focuses on its strange and wonderful grammar. Delving into provocative topics and more, "Our Magnificent Bastard Language" distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. see all copies from $8.62! new only from $8.62! \| SVS
20	United States Military Academy : class of 1946 : a chronicle of duty, honor, country more books like this by John C. McWhorter add to wishlist see all copies from $22.00! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles more books like this by John McWhorter (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $312.09! new only from $312.09!
22 view cover	Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist see all copies from $61.50! SVS
23	West Point revisited : reminiscences of the Class of 1946, 50 years later more books like this by John C. McWhorter, United States Military Academy. Class of 1946 add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! signed copies

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