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The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language

Product Description: Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated audiobook addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world...read more

By John H. McWhorter (narrator)

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9781531811907 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, August 9, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue.

The Language Hoax

By John H. McWhorter

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Paperback:

9780190468897 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $14.95

Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?

Product Description: In John McWhorter`s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publicationssince the 1990s have argued that all languages of the world that lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i...read more

By John H. McWhorter

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9781934078372 | Mouton De Gruyter, June 15, 2011, cover price $196.00 | About this edition: In John McWhorter´s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense.

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9781934078396 | Mouton De Gruyter, June 13, 2012, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: In John McWhorter`s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense.

Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars

By John H. McWhorter

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Hardcover:

9780195309805 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 18, 2007, cover price $73.00

Defining Creole

By John H. McWhorter

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9780195166705 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 3, 2005, cover price $95.00

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9780195166699 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 3, 2005, cover price $83.00

Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation Of Language And Music And Why We Should, Like, Care

Encourages readers to establish a boundary between an acceptable evolution of language and outright language misuse, predicting the consequences of the overuse of street English in today's writing, music, and society. By the author of The Power of Babel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By John H. McWhorter

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9781592400843 | Reprint edition (Gotham Books, September 9, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Encourages readers to establish a boundary between an acceptable evolution of language and outright language misuse, predicting the consequences of the overuse of street English in today's writing, music, and society.

Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority

A new collection of thought-provoking essays by the best-selling author of Losing the Race examines what it means to be black in modern-day America, addressing such issues as racial profiling, the reparations movement, film and TV stereotypes, diversity, affirmative action, and hip-hop, while calling for the advancement of true racial equality. Reprint.

By John H. McWhorter

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9781592400010 | Gotham Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays examine what it means to be black in modern-day America, addressing such issues as racial profiling, the reparations movement, film and TV stereotypes, and diversity, while calling for the advancement of true racial equality.

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9781592400461 | Reprint edition (Gotham Books, January 1, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A new collection of thought-provoking essays by the best-selling author of Losing the Race examines what it means to be black in modern-day America, addressing such issues as racial profiling, the reparations movement, film and TV stereotypes, diversity, affirmative action, and hip-hop, while calling for the advancement of true racial equality.

Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why Should We, Like, Care

By John H. McWhorter

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9781592400164 | Gotham Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Encourages readers to establish a boundary between an acceptable evolution of language and outright language misuse, predicting the consequences of the overuse of street English in contemporary writing, music, and society.

The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

Chronicles the origins and evolution of language from the appearance of the first language about 150,000 years ago in East Africa to the approximately six thousand language varieties of today. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By John H. McWhorter

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9780716744733 | 1 edition (W H Freeman & Co, January 1, 2002), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the evolution of language from the appearance of the first language about 150,000 years ago in East Africa to the approximately six thousand language varieties of today.

9780434007899 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2002, cover price $33.40 | About this edition: This text provides a guided tour of languages, aiming to be at once both thought-provoking and entertaining.

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9780060520854 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 2003), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Chronicles the origins and evolution of language from the appearance of the first language about 150,000 years ago in East Africa to the approximately six thousand language varieties of today.

Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

A professor of linguistics paints a controversial portrait of defeatism and pessimism in black America that threatens to hold young African Americans back. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By John H. McWhorter

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9780684836690 | Free Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A professor of linguistics paints a controversial portrait of defeatism and pessimism in black America that threatens to hold young African Americans back.

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9780060935931 | 1 edition (Perennial, August 1, 2001), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A professor of linguistics paints a controversial portrait of defeatism and pessimism in black America that threatens to hold young African Americans back.

Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English

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By John H. McWhorter

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Paperback:

9780738204468 | Basic Books, January 24, 2001, cover price $18.00

The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages

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By John H. McWhorter

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Hardcover:

9780520219991 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $63.00

Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America

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By John H. McWhorter

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9780325001982 | Heinemann, January 14, 2000, cover price $16.88

Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles

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By John H. McWhorter (editor) and Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (corporate author)

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Hardcover:

9781556196683 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 1, 1999, cover price $240.00

The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable About American English

Describes the speech patterns of various ethnic groups and regions, and argues that language is always changing (view table of contents)

By John H. McWhorter

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Hardcover:

9780306459948 | Plenum Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Describes the speech patterns of various ethnic groups and regions, and argues that language is always changing

Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis

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By John H. McWhorter

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Hardcover:

9780820433127 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $58.95

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