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Doing Our Own Thing
- The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
Engelsk
Bogcover for Doing Our Own Thing af John McWhorter, 9780099445357
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780099445357
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0099445352
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
3 nov 2005
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 13,1 x 2,5
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
3 nov 2005
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Doing Our Own Thing

- The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
Engelsk
Paperback 2005
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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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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780099445357
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0099445352
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
3 nov 2005
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 13,1 x 2,5
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
3 nov 2005
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