Doing our own thing: the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care
Auteur :
McWhorter, John
Éditeur :
Cornerstone
ISBN :
9780099445357
Date de publication :
3 nov. 2005
Dimensions :
19,8 x 12,9 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
213 g
Format :
B-format paperback
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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 culture.