Doing Our Own Thing
The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
There was a time when American presidents such as Lincoln, Roosevelt and Kennedy exhorted their country to greatness with elevated diction and measured rhetorical technique. But today the hearts and minds of a weary nation are implored by a president whose idea of eloquent phrasing is 'Let's roll'.John McWhorter argues that the precipitous decline of the English language derives from the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and its insistence that established forms and formality were autocratic and artificial. Warning that the near-total loss of formal expression is unprecedented in modern history, McWhorter suggests that it has reached a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4464-7322-1
- EAN: 9781446473221
- Produktnummer: 14337158
- Verlag: Random House
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 482 KB
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