Książka Doing Our Own Thing John H. McWhorter

Doing Our Own Thing

The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Cornerstone
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Once languages become written, they change. Only in writing does language develop the artfulness and...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2005
strony
304
EAN
9780099445357
ISBN
0099445352
Enbook ID
04859552
Wydawca
Waga
216
Wymiary
131 x 197 x 25

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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...

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