The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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Penguin Books, 2015 - 524 pages
The classic work on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind. In The Language Instinct, 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.

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The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
Limited preview - 2010
The Language Instinct, Page 655
Steven Pinker
Snippet view - 1994
The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker
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About the author (2015)

Steven Pinker is one of the world's most influential thinkers and writers on the human condition. His popular and highly praised books include The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Sense of Style, The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, and The Language Instinct. The recipient of several major awards for his teaching, books, and scientific research, Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He also writes frequently for The New York Times, the Guardian and other publications. He has been named Humanist of the Year, Prospect magazine's "The World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals," Foreign Policy's "100 Global Thinkers," and Time magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Penguin science
AuthorSteven Pinker
Editionillustrated
PublisherPenguin Books, 2015
ISBN014198077X, 9780141980775
Length524 pages
  
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