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Read [Steven Pinker Book] ! The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) book's good, but STAY AWAY FROM KINDLE EDITION! Eduardo Vila This is not a review of the book itself, just a warning for anyone thinking of getting the Kindle edition.The people who published this for Kindle should be ashamed of themselves for selling this product with a straight face.As Kindle books are often scanned from printed versions, I'v grown accustomed to seeing the occasional mis-scan. The one book on linguistics for the layperson For the educated layperson, this book is the most fasci
| Title | : | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061336467 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-17 |
| Language | : | English |
Professor and co-director of MIT's Center for Cognitive Science, Pinker demolishes linguistic determinism, which holds that differences among languages cause marked differences in the thoughts of their speakers. Pinker also argues that claims for chimpanzees' acquisition of language (via symbols or American Sign Language) are vastly exaggerated and rest on skimpy data. Finally, he takes delightful swipes at "language mavens" like William Safire and Richard Lederer, accusing them of rigidity and of grossly underestimating the average person's language skills. In this exciting synthesis--an entertaining, totally accessible study tha
In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
book's good, but STAY AWAY FROM KINDLE EDITION! Eduardo Vila This is not a review of the book itself, just a warning for anyone thinking of getting the Kindle edition.The people who published this for Kindle should be ashamed of themselves for selling this product with a straight face.As Kindle books are often scanned from printed versions, I'v grown accustomed to seeing the occasional mis-scan. The one book on linguistics for the layperson For the educated layperson, this book is the most fascinating and engaging introduction to linguistics I have come across. I know some college students who had received xeroxed handouts of one chapter from this book, and these were students who were just bored of reading handouts week after week but after reading just a few paragraphs. Pinker's treatment of linguistics is a bit scientific at worst but insightful and provoking leaving the listener with a Pinker's treatment of linguistics is a bit scientific at worst but insightful and provoking leaving the listener with a mindful. Well worth the listening. My first encounter with this was at the library. I had to have it.
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