| American no longer expect public
figures, whether in speech or in writing, to command the English language with
skill and gift. Nor do they aspire to such command themselves. In his latest
book, Doing Our Own Thing. The Degradation of language and Music and why we
should like, care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed
liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counter-culture as
responsible for the decline of formal English. But the cult of the authentic and the personal, "doing our own thing", has spelt the death of formal speech, writing, poetry and music. While even the modestly educated sought an elevated tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s, even the most well regarded writing since then has sought to capture spoken English on the page. Equally, in poetry, the highly personal, performative genre is A. (A) modesty B. (B) personality C. (C) liveliness D. (D) informality 更多"American no longer expect public "的相关试题:我来回答: 提交
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