The Language Instinct : The New Science of Language and Mind

Steven Pinker

ISBN 10: 0140175296 / ISBN 13: 9780140175295

Published by Penguin, 1995

About this Item

No annotations or markings. Some minor wear/dirt accumulation to corners and edges. No creasing to covers. Some creasing to spine. Some fading to covers and spine. Excellent reading copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Language Instinct : The New Science of Language and Mind
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140175296
• ISBN 13: 9780140175295
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 2.1W x 12.9H x 19.8D centimeters 2.1 centimeters width by 12.9 centimeters height by 19.8 centimeters depth
• Weight: 340 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic

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Synopsis

'Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese...Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - "Independent". 'A marvelously readable book...illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, its acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects' - "Nature".

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.