The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Softcover

Steven Pinker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141037652 ISBN 13: 9780141037653

Publisher: Penguin Group (Australia), 2008

Synopsis

Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct propelled him to worldwide fame in 1994. His groundbreaking book's premise - that language is instinctual rather than acquired - so shook the foundations of biological science that the reverberations are still being felt today.

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From the Back Cover

In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved.  With wit, erudition, and deft use it everyday 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 like web spinning in spiders or sonar 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.

About the Author

One of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World Today," Steven Pinker is the author of seven books, including How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate—both Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners of the William James Book Award. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher, and a frequent contributor to Time and the New York Times.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Group (Australia)
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141037652
• ISBN 13: 9780141037653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 494