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

McWhorter, John H.

ISBN 10: 1592400167 / ISBN 13: 9781592400164

Edité par Gotham Books, 2003

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NEW! This linguist has studied language from ages past through now and presents his opinion that we've 'become less articulate'. The book has plenty of documentation and supported opinions! Try this one as something very interesting and quite different than the usual stuff. This reduction in eloquence affects speeches, music and our everyday talk. Yeah!

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why Should We, Like, Care
• Éditeur: Gotham Books
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1592400167
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781592400164
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
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  • References
  • Literature, Fiction, Poetry
  • Non-Fiction

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There was a time when American presidents such as Lincoln, Roosevelt and Kennedy exhorted their country to greatness with elevated diction and measured rhetorical technique. But today the hearts and minds of a weary nation are implored by a president whose idea of eloquent phrasing is 'Let's roll'.

John McWhorter argues that the precipitous decline of the English language derives from the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and its insistence that established forms and formality were autocratic and artificial. Warning that the near-total loss of formal expression is unprecedented in modern history, McWhorter suggests that it has reached a crisis point in our culture, in which our very ability to convey ideas and arguments effectively is gravely threatened.

By turns compelling and provocative, passionate and judicious, Doing Our Own Thing is required reading for all concerned about the state of our language.