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      Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis

      John H McWhorter

      Creolists have established that many processes determine the structure of Caribbean creole languages, including innate linguistic universals, West African retention, and certain patterns of simplification. Towards a New Model of…

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      Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?

      John H. McWhorter

      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…

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      Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?

      John H. McWhorter

      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…

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      Losing The Race

      John H McWhorter

      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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      Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America

      John H. McWhorter

      Arguing that speech deviation from Standard American English is not wrong, McWhorter focuses on classroom applications to offer teachers, teacher educators and administrators useful basic language principles commonly accepted by…

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      The Creole Debate

      John H. McWhorter (Columbia University, New York)

      Creole specialists have long argued that it is wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends, in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German, Hebrew…

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      The Creole Debate

      John H. McWhorter (Columbia University, New York)

      Creole specialists have long argued that it is wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends, in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German, Hebrew…

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      The Language Hoax

      John H. McWhorter (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University)

      A provocative argument against the idea that we view the world through the lens of the language we speak.

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

      John H. McWhorter (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University)

      A provocative argument against the idea that we view the world through the lens of the language we speak.

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      Undoctrinate: How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schools–And What We Can Do about It

      Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder

      We’re used to assuming that politics stop at the classroom door. Those days are over. Are your kids being indoctrinated in school?

      Unfortunately, it’s increasingly likely. From social justice to…

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      Defining Creole

      John H. McWhorter (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley)

      Gathers published articles on creole languages and their origins by John H McWhorter, a scholar in the field. This book defends his hypothesis that creole languages are synchronically distinguishable from…

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