John McWhorter
Författare till The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
Om författaren
John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Verk av John McWhorter
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care (2003) 350 exemplar
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars (2007) 13 exemplar
The most efficient language 7 exemplar
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles (Creole Language Library) (2000) 6 exemplar
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress? (Language Contact and Bilingualism (Lcb)) (2011) 5 exemplar
Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English 2 exemplar
How the Words of Modern English Emerged 2 exemplar
How Language Changes - Modern English 1 exemplar
Why Texting is Misunderstood 1 exemplar
The Nature of Writing 1 exemplar
Language Families - Diversity of Structures 1 exemplar
Language Families - Tracing Indo-European 1 exemplar
Language Families - Indo-European 1 exemplar
How Language Changes - Building New Material 1 exemplar
How Language Changes - Many Directions 1 exemplar
How Language Changes - Meaning and Order 1 exemplar
How Language Changes - Sound Changes 1 exemplar
When Language Began 1 exemplar
What is Language ? 1 exemplar
The Story of Human Language 1 exemplar
Is English special because it's 'Globish'? 1 exemplar
"Like, Degrading the Language? No Way" 1 exemplar
"A Matter of Fashion" 1 exemplar
"Talking With Your Fingers" 1 exemplar
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 798 exemplar
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages (Creole Language Library) (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- McWhorter, John
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- McWhorter V, John Hamilton
- Födelsedag
- 1965
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Utbildning
- 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) - Yrken
- 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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