The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Pinker, Steven

ISBN 10: 0061336467 / ISBN 13: 9780061336461

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

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A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras arenâ t guaranteedâ but the storyâ s all there! Seller Inventory # PKV.0061336467.G

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates ...

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: good

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Synopsis:

The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind.

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.

From the Publisher:

Science Is...
According to Steven PInker, science is an institution that fosters the instinct to make sense of the world while discouraging the instinct to deceive ourselves and one another.