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

McWhorter, John H.

ISBN 10: 1592400167 / ISBN 13: 9781592400164

Published by Gotham Books, 2003

About this Item

NEW! This linguist has studied language from ages past through now and presents his opinion that we've 'become less articulate'. The book has plenty of documentation and supported opinions! Try this one as something very interesting and quite different than the usual stuff. This reduction in eloquence affects speeches, music and our everyday talk. Yeah!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why Should We, Like, Care
• Publisher: Gotham Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592400167
• ISBN 13: 9781592400164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • References
  • Literature, Fiction, Poetry
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Encourages readers to establish a boundary between an acceptable evolution of language and outright language misuse, predicting the consequences of the overuse of street English in today's writing, music, and society. By the author of The Power of Babel. 50,000 first printing.

About the Authors

John McWhorter is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Authentically Black (Gotham Books, 2003), The Power of Babel, and the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. He has appeared on many television news shows, and his articles appear regularly in The New Republic and The Wall Street Journal.

John McWhorter is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an associate professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley.