BOOKS by John H McWhorter

Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care more books like this

by John H McWhorter

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 ...

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Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering Birth of Plantation more books like this

by John H McWhorter

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 ...

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