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Once languages become written, they change. Only in writing does language develop the artfulness and richness that we associate with a Shakespeare, a Proust or a Whitman. Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone into reverse - taking our lead from America and the legacy of the 19060s, 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. Paral

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Author

John Hamilton McWhorter

Publisher

William Heinemann Ltd

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780434010585

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Linguistics

Rating

3.61 / 5 (205 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13