John Mcwhorter

Spreading the Word

Language and Dialect in America. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 96 Seiten
ISBN 0325001987
EAN 9780325001982
Veröffentlicht Januar 2000
Verlag/Hersteller Heinemann Educational Books
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Beschreibung

In Spreading the Word, linguist John McWhorter proves that nonstandard dialects are not bastardizations of Standard English, but alternate variations upon the basic plan of English, of which the Standard is but one.

Portrait

John McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable About American English and two books about Pidgin and Creole languages.

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