Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care - Couverture souple

McWhorter, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099445352 ISBN 13 : 9780099445357

Editeur : Arrow, 2005

Synopsis

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. 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. Parallel developments have occurred in music.

In this controversial and thought-provoking book, John McWhorter argues that the 1960's rejection of cultural traits associated with the Establishment, as well as a democratic celebration of what anyone can do over what requires training or talent, has led to our culture being increasingly impoverished, both intellectually and artistically...

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John McWhorter is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arrow
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099445352
• ISBN 13: 9780099445357
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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