John McWhorter

John McWhorter

Columbia University in the City of New York

H-index: 41

North America-United States

About John McWhorter

John McWhorter, With an exceptional h-index of 41 and a recent h-index of 20 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Columbia University in the City of New York, specializes in the field of Language change, Language contact, Typology, Race relations in America.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

We Need a New Word for'Plagiarism'.

Training People to Think They Are Weak Is a Form of Abuse.

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

How Hip-Hop Became America's Poetry.

Review of Saad (2020): Variation and change in Abui: The impact of Alor Malay on an indigenous language of Indonesia

Our Racial Reckoning Could Have Come Sooner. What Made 2020 Different?

I Think It's Fine to Say'I Feel Like.'I Reckon Others Do, Too.

Why I Still Love'West Side Story'.

John McWhorter Information

University

Position

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Citations(all)

7853

Citations(since 2020)

2162

Cited By

6235

hIndex(all)

41

hIndex(since 2020)

20

i10Index(all)

78

i10Index(since 2020)

44

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Columbia University in the City of New York

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John McWhorter Skills & Research Interests

Language change

Language contact

Typology

Race relations in America

Top articles of John McWhorter

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

We Need a New Word for'Plagiarism'.

The New York Times

John McWhorter

2024/1/28

Training People to Think They Are Weak Is a Form of Abuse.

The New York Times

John McWhorter

2023/12/17

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

John McWhorter

2023/10/10

How Hip-Hop Became America's Poetry.

International New York Times

John McWhorter

2023/8/24

Review of Saad (2020): Variation and change in Abui: The impact of Alor Malay on an indigenous language of Indonesia

John McWhorter

2023/5/5

Our Racial Reckoning Could Have Come Sooner. What Made 2020 Different?

International New York Times

John McWhorter

2022/6/13

I Think It's Fine to Say'I Feel Like.'I Reckon Others Do, Too.

International New York Times

John Mcwhorter

2022/5/12

Why I Still Love'West Side Story'.

International New York Times

John McWhorter

2022/1/15

Spoken and sign language emergence: a comparison

Languages

John McWhorter

2022/7/18

Why the Overturning of Roe Won't Lead to a Return of Segregation.

International New York Times

John McWhorter

2022/7/12

Some Hear Grammar Don'ts. I Hear the Future of English.

International New York Times

John McWhorter

2021/11/4

Woke racism: How a new religion has betrayed Black America

John McWhorter

2021/10/26

What I See in the Latest Blackface'Scandal'.

International New York Times

John McWhorter

2021/10/20

Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People.

International New York Times

John McWhorter

2021/12/23

Gender Pronouns Are Changing. It's Exhilarating.

International New York Times

John McWhorter

2021/9/24

The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition, edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke

Heritage Language Journal

John McWhorter

2021/12/2

Heritage Language, Creole Language: Incomplete Acquisition and Modern Language Contact Typology

Heritage Language Journal

John McWhorter

2020/3/18

Creoles

John McWhorter

2020/2/5

Revisiting Invariant am in Early African American Vernacular English

American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage

John McWhorter

2020/11/1

What's a language, anyway?

John McWhorter

2020

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