John McWhorter
Autore di The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
Sull'Autore
John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Opere di John McWhorter
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care (2003) 350 copie
The most efficient language 7 copie
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles (Creole Language Library) (2000) 6 copie
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress? (Language Contact and Bilingualism (Lcb)) (2011) 5 copie
Why Texting is Misunderstood 1 copia
The Nature of Writing 1 copia
When Language Began 1 copia
What is Language ? 1 copia
The Story of Human Language 1 copia
"A Matter of Fashion" 1 copia
"Talking With Your Fingers" 1 copia
Opere correlate
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Collaboratore — 798 copie
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages (Creole Language Library) (2000) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
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- Nome canonico
- McWhorter, John
- Nome legale
- McWhorter V, John Hamilton
- Data di nascita
- 1965
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Istruzione
- 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) - Attività lavorative
- linguist
professor
author
political commentator - Organizzazioni
- Manhattan Institute
University of California, Berkeley - Agente
- Katinka Matson
- Breve biografia
- 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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- Opere
- 60
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 6,017
- Popolarità
- #4,092
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 186
- ISBN
- 111
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 19