The Language Instinct

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the 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 wit, erudition, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling stoiy: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats. 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.
"Absorbing. He makes a persuasive, entertaining case." —Time
"Pinker writes with acid verve. . . . This is an exciting book, certain to produce argument."
—Atlantic Monthly
"Pi brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." —New York Times Book Review
"Steven Pinker... Tovább

Fülszöveg

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
1 p —

In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the 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 wit, erudition, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling stoiy: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats. 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.
"Absorbing. He makes a persuasive, entertaining case." —Time
"Pinker writes with acid verve. . . . This is an exciting book, certain to produce argument."
—Atlantic Monthly
"Pi brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." —New York Times Book Review
"Steven Pinker reminds us of the pleasures of reading about language, provided people like him are at the wheel."
—William F. Buckley, Jr.
"An extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written as well."
—Noam Chomsky
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