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Doing our own thing : the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care / John McWhorter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Gotham Books, 2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiv, 279 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1592400167 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Contents:
People just talk : speech versus writing -- Mere rhetoric : the decline of oratory -- "Got marjoram?" or why I don't have any poetry -- Rather too colloquial for elegance: written English takes it light -- What happened to us? or play that funky music, white folks -- La la la through a new lens : music talks to America.
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Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 427.973 MCW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 500910
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index.

People just talk : speech versus writing -- Mere rhetoric : the decline of oratory -- "Got marjoram?" or why I don't have any poetry -- Rather too colloquial for elegance: written English takes it light -- What happened to us? or play that funky music, white folks -- La la la through a new lens : music talks to America.

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