Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care - John McWhorter - Books - Cornerstone - 9780099445357 - November 3, 2005
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John McWhorter
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

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Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone into reverse - taking our lead from America and the legacy of the 1960s, our culture increasingly privileges the oral over the written, spurning the art of elaborated, 'written'-style language in favour of returning to the state of a spoken culture.

304 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 3, 2005
ISBN13 9780099445357
Publishers Cornerstone
Pages 304
Dimensions 131 × 197 × 25 mm   ·   216 g
Language English  

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