Doing Our Own Thing
Author(s): John McWhorter
Once languages become written, they change. Only in writing does language develop the artfulness and richness that we associate with a Shakespeare, a Proust or a Whitman.
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John McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley. He is the author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, as well as a book about black English, The Word on the Street.
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- : heinemann
- : heinemann
- : 04 November 2004
- : 250mm X mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : John McWhorter
- : Hardback
- : 700.103
- : 304
