I love to gripe about it, but John McWhorter made me rethink how I felt.” - Ginette Evans on TED.

He has appeared regularly on Bloggingheads.TV since 2006, and he produces and plays piano for a group cabaret show, New Faces, at the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City. He guest hosted the Lexicon Valley podcast at Slate during the summer of 2016.īeyond his work in linguistics, McWhorter is the author of Losing the Race and other books on race. But the book is wonderfully accessible and necessary. AND THAT MAKES SENSE TO TAKE ON NEW MEANING IN THE SHAPE. This can be a refreshing way to learn how to talk about linguistics a little more conversationally, but if you are looking for more pompous academic rigour, you may have to look elsewhere. The Teaching Company has released four of his audiovisual lecture courses on linguistics. WITH JOHN MCWHORTER ON HIS BOOK 'WORDS ON THE MOVE' THE WORD CLUED DERIVES FROM THE WORD CLUE THAT MEANS FOLLOW BEYOND. McWhorter earned his PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and is the author of The Power of Babel, Doing Our Own Thing, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, The Language Hoax and most recently Words on the Move and Talking Back, Talking Black. He was Contributing Editor at The New Republic from 2001 until 2014.

His work also appears in the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Aeon magazine, The American Interest and other outlets. He is a regular columnist on language matters and race issues for Time and CNN, writes for the Wall Street Journal 'Taste' page, and writes a regular column on language for The Atlantic. John McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, teaching linguistics, Western Civilization and music history.

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