John H. McWhorter

3.1k citations
28 papers · 970 indexed · h-index 14

John H. McWhorter

26 papers receiving 765 citations

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John H. McWhorter
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  • Linguistics and Language 457
  • Language and Linguistics 506
  • Cultural Studies 189
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 155
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 84
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20181
2
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
201430
3 20130
4
Myths, lies, and half-truths of language usage
20120
5 200911
6
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
200818
7 200766
8 200550
9 20041
10 20041
11
The power of Babel : a natural history of language
200362
12 20033
13 20017
14 2001215
15
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
2000175
16
Word on the street : debunking the myth of "pure" standard english
200022
17 1998122
18 19978
19
Towards a new model of creole genesis
199754
20 199517

About John H. McWhorter

John H. McWhorter is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Music, having authored 28 papers that have together received 970 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (15 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers), Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 papers), Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (3 papers), Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (3 papers), Music History and Culture (2 papers), Language and cultural evolution (1 paper) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Linguistics and Language (457 citations), Language and Linguistics (506 citations) and Cultural Studies (189 citations). John H. McWhorter has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include Peter Bakker and Mikael Parkvall. Their work appears in journals such as Language, Language in Society and Lingua.

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