The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (Häftad)
avJohn McWhorter
ISBN: 9780060520854 - UTGIVEN: 2003-01Chronicles the origins and evolution of language from the appearance of the first language about 150,000 years ago in East Africa to the approximately six thousand language varieties of today. Reprint.[...]
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity (Inbunden)
avRobert Lane Greene, John McWhorter
ISBN: 9780553807875 - UTGIVEN: 2011-03
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Häftad)
avJohn McWhorter
ISBN: 9781592404940 - UTGIVEN: 2009-10A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative to[...]
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Häftad)
avJohn McWhorter
ISBN: 9781592407200 - UTGIVEN: 2012-08A love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct grammar
An eye-opening tour for all language lovers, "What Language Is "offers a fascinating new perspective on the way humans communicate. from vanishing languages spoken by a few hundred people to [...]
The Language Hoax (Inbunden)
avJohn H. McWhorter
ISBN: 9780199361588 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypot[...]
Missing Spanish Creoles, The: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages (Övrig)
avJohn H. Mcwhorter
ISBN: 9780520219991 - UTGIVEN: 2000-06-12John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. That model maintain[...]
