John McWhorter
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 58 |
| Date of birth | October 6,1965 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Philadelphia |
| Pennsylvania | |
| United States | |
| Parents | John Hamilton McWhorter IV |
| Schelysture Gordon McWhorter | |
| Job | Teacher |
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| Education | Simon's Rock |
| Bard College at Simon's Rock | |
| Friends Select School | |
| Stanford University | |
| New York University | |
| Rutgers University | |
| Siblings | Holly McWhorter |
| Nationality | American |
| Nominations | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction |
| Audie Award for Non-Fiction | |
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| ID | 554244 |
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
The Power of Babel
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
The Language Hoax
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America's Lingua Franca
Authentically Black
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be
The Story of Human Language
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America
The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable about American English
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
The Creole Debate
All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America
Language A to Z
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars
Defining Creole
Winning the Race
Language Families of the World
The missing Spanish creoles
Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?
A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole
Towards a new model of creole genesis
How Language Works
Power of Babel Proof
Unti on Language
Doing Our Own Thing Proof
The Power of Babel
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
The Language Hoax
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America's Lingua Franca
Authentically Black
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be
The Story of Human Language
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America
The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable about American English
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
The Creole Debate
All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America
Language A to Z
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars
Defining Creole
Winning the Race
Language Families of the World
The missing Spanish creoles
Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?
A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole
Towards a new model of creole genesis
How Language Works
Power of Babel Proof
Unti on Language
Doing Our Own Thing Proof
John McWhorter Life story
John Hamilton McWhorter V is an American linguist with a specialty in creole languages, sociolects, and Black English. He is currently an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, where he also teaches American studies and music history.
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