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

McWhorter, John H.

 
9781592400164: Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why Should We, Like, Care

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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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

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