John McWhorter
Forfatter af The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
Om forfatteren
John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Værker af John McWhorter
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care (2003) 345 eksemplarer
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars (2007) 12 eksemplarer
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles (Creole Language Library) (2000) 6 eksemplarer
The most efficient language 6 eksemplarer
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress? (Language Contact and Bilingualism (Lcb)) (2011) 4 eksemplarer
The Great Courses: How Artificial Languages Work 3 eksemplarer
Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English 2 eksemplarer
How the Words of Modern English Emerged 2 eksemplarer
Language Families - Indo-European 1 eksemplar
Why Texting is Misunderstood 1 eksemplar
The Nature of Writing 1 eksemplar
Language Families - Diversity of Structures 1 eksemplar
Language Families - Tracing Indo-European 1 eksemplar
How Language Changes - Building New Material 1 eksemplar
How Language Changes - Modern English 1 eksemplar
How Language Changes - Many Directions 1 eksemplar
How Language Changes - Meaning and Order 1 eksemplar
How Language Changes - Sound Changes 1 eksemplar
When Language Began 1 eksemplar
What is Language ? 1 eksemplar
"Like, Degrading the Language? No Way" 1 eksemplar
"Talking With Your Fingers" 1 eksemplar
Is English special because it's 'Globish'? 1 eksemplar
"A Matter of Fashion" 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Bidragyder — 770 eksemplarer
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages (Creole Language Library) (2000) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- McWhorter, John
- Juridisk navn
- McWhorter V, John Hamilton
- Fødselsdato
- 1965
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Bopæl
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Uddannelse
- Friends Select School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bard College at Simon's Rock (AA)
Rutgers University (BA|French|1985)
New York University (MA|American Studies)
Stanford University (PhD|Linguistics|1993) - Erhverv
- linguist
professor
author
political commentator - Organisationer
- Manhattan Institute
University of California, Berkeley - Agent
- Katinka Matson
- Kort biografi
- John McWhorter is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to The New Republic, he has taught linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and has been widely profiled in the media. [adapted from loc.gov, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (2008)]
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