Doing our own thing : the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care / John McWhorter.
2003
PE2808.8 .M38 2003 (Mapit)
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Doing our own thing : the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care / John McWhorter.
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Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
1592400167 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Gotham Books, 2003.
Language
English
Description
xxiv, 279 p. ; 24 cm.
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PE2808.8 .M38 2003
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index.
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Table of Contents
People just talk : speech versus writing
Mere rhetoric : the decline of oratory
"Got marjoram?" or why I don't have any poetry
Rather too colloquial for elegance: written English takes it light
What happened to us? or play that funky music, white folks
La la la through a new lens : music talks to America.
Mere rhetoric : the decline of oratory
"Got marjoram?" or why I don't have any poetry
Rather too colloquial for elegance: written English takes it light
What happened to us? or play that funky music, white folks
La la la through a new lens : music talks to America.