John McWhorter
Auteur de The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
A propos de l'auteur
John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Séries
Œuvres de John McWhorter
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care (2003) 351 exemplaires
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars (2007) 13 exemplaires
The most efficient language 7 exemplaires
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles (Creole Language Library) (2000) 6 exemplaires
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress? (Language Contact and Bilingualism (Lcb)) (2011) 5 exemplaires
The Great Courses: How Artificial Languages Work 3 exemplaires
Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English 2 exemplaires
How the Words of Modern English Emerged 2 exemplaires
How Language Changes - Modern English 1 exemplaire
Why Texting is Misunderstood 1 exemplaire
The Nature of Writing 1 exemplaire
Language Families - Diversity of Structures 1 exemplaire
Language Families - Tracing Indo-European 1 exemplaire
Language Families - Indo-European 1 exemplaire
How Language Changes - Building New Material 1 exemplaire
How Language Changes - Many Directions 1 exemplaire
How Language Changes - Meaning and Order 1 exemplaire
How Language Changes - Sound Changes 1 exemplaire
When Language Began 1 exemplaire
What is Language ? 1 exemplaire
The Story of Human Language 1 exemplaire
How "Hamilton" Revolutionized the Broadway Musical 1 exemplaire
Is English special because it's 'Globish'? 1 exemplaire
"Like, Degrading the Language? No Way" 1 exemplaire
"A Matter of Fashion" 1 exemplaire
"Talking With Your Fingers" 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Contributeur — 798 exemplaires
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages (Creole Language Library) (2000) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- McWhorter, John
- Nom légal
- McWhorter V, John Hamilton
- Date de naissance
- 1965
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Études
- 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) - Professions
- linguist
professor
author
political commentator - Organisations
- Manhattan Institute
University of California, Berkeley - Agent
- Katinka Matson
- Courte biographie
- 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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 60
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 6,021
- Popularité
- #4,088
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 187
- ISBN
- 111
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 19