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Doing Our Own Thing

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

Doing Our Own Thing( )
Author: McWhorter, John
ISBN:978-0-09-944535-7
Publication Date:Jan 2006
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Arrow
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $32.99
Book Description:

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...
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