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Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care - Hardcover
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.
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"Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable." —The Economist
"Provocative, funny. . . McWhorter suggests that prose ought to be something ‘we decorate out of a basic sense of exuberance of living.’" —Andrea Behr, San Francisco Chronicle
"An entertaining and provocative analysis of the way we use language, while also suggesting that we should love it." —Charles Matthews, San Jose Mercury News
"McWhorter is a gifted young linguist who seeks to understand the change in our verbal habits rather than just bemoan it, and his analysis is insightful, richly documented and, yes, eloquently written." —Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate and The Language Instinct
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"Provocative, funny. . . McWhorter suggests that prose ought to be something ‘we decorate out of a basic sense of exuberance of living.’" —Andrea Behr, San Francisco Chronicle
"An entertaining and provocative analysis of the way we use language, while also suggesting that we should love it." —Charles Matthews, San Jose Mercury News
"McWhorter is a gifted young linguist who seeks to understand the change in our verbal habits rather than just bemoan it, and his analysis is insightful, richly documented and, yes, eloquently written." —Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate and The Language Instinct
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.
John McWhorter is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an associate professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley.
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- Publication date2003
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