Author

John McWhorter

35 books

Books

  1. Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English 2008
  2. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language 2001
  3. What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be 2011
  4. Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still 2016
  5. The Story of Human Language 2004
  6. The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language 2014
  7. Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America 2000
  8. Language A to Z 2013
  9. Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care 2003
  10. Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
  11. Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English 1998
  12. Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America 2005
  13. Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage 2012
  14. Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language
21 more
  1. Woke Racism 2021
  2. Understanding linguistics 2008
  3. Woke Racism 2022
  4. Nine Nasty Words : English in the Gutter 2021
  5. Winning the race 2005
  6. Spreading the word 2000
  7. Authentically Black 2003
  8. The Creole Debate 2018
  9. The Story of Human Language Complete Set 2004
  10. Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars 2007
  11. Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis 1997
  12. Authentically Black 2002
  13. False Black Power? 2017
  14. Language Hoax, The 2016
  15. Undoctrinate 2021
  16. Defining Creole 2005
  17. Linguistic simplicity and complexity 2011
  18. All about the beat 2008
  19. The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact 2000
  20. Grammar of Saramaccan Creole 2012
  21. Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles 2000

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