Ebooks de John McWhorter en PDF et EPUB

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Télécharger le livre : Doing Our Own Thing
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Doing Our Own Thing
John Mcwhorter
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...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-06-30

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12,99 €
Télécharger le livre : The Power Of Babel
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The Power Of Babel
John Mcwhorter
There can be few subjects of such widespread interest and fascination to anyone who reads as the strange ways of languages. In this wonderfully entertaining and fascinating book, John McWhorter introduces us to 'the natural history of language': from Russonorsk, a...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-04-30

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10,99 €
Télécharger le livre : Word On The Street
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Word On The Street
John Mcwhorter
Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing -- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2009-03-06

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9,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Language Interrupted
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Language Interrupted
John Mcwhorter
Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2007-06-18

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34,86 €