(Paperback)
By: John McWhorter
ISBN: 9780593421383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Hardback)
By: John McWhorter
ISBN: 9780593188798
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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"One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much"--
(Paperback)
By: John McWhorter
ISBN: 9780099445357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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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.
(Paperback)
By: John McWhorter
ISBN: 9780738204468
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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A barbed rebuttal to the conservative view that popular culture is destroying the English language.
(Paperback)
By: John McWhorter
ISBN: 9781800751446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2022
Publisher: Swift Press
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(Paperback)
By: John McWhorter
ISBN: 9781942658580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
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An authoritative, impassioned celebration of Black English, how it works, and why it mattersnow in paperback!
