Item Tag: McWhorter, John

New Yorker “Do you think Black English is a ‘dialect’ full of ‘mistakes’?. You’re likely to change your mind about its ‘languageness’ after reading Mr. McWhorter.”. His books on language include The Power of Babel, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, What Language Is, The Language Hoax, and Words on the Move.

New Yorker “Do you think Black English is a ‘dialect’ full of ‘mistakes’?. You’re likely to change your mind about its ‘languageness’ after reading Mr. McWhorter.”. His books on language include The Power of Babel, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, What Language Is, The Language Hoax, and Words on the Move.