Language Instinct New Science by Steven Pinker (63 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Simply by making noises with our mouths, we can reliably cause precise new combinations of ideas to arise in each other's minds. The ability comes so naturally that we are apt to forget what a miracle it is. Pursuing the ideas of Darwin and Chomsky, Steven Pinker offers a look at why we use language and where this ability comes from. Rather than being an acquired cultural artefact, it is vigorously argued that language is a biological adaptation to communicate information and as such is a system of great richness and beauty. Using examples of the way language is used in daily life from the mouths of children to the pontifications of politicians, Pinker explores this system and our instinct to use it. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 8vo pp. 494 "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? book.

Condition: Very Good. 2008. No Edition Remarks. 447 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Illustrated cloth covered boards. Green slipcase included. Pages remain clear with minimal marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have minimal edge wear or rubbing to surfaces. Silver lettering is bright. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor marking to panels.

Condition: Very Good. 2008. No Edition Remarks. 447 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Illustrated paper covered boards with a green spine strip. Includes green slipcase. Pages and plates remain bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor marking to panels. Prominent damp stain to one panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. h/b in slipcase, 447 pages, condition is very good. An owners name and label to the flyleaf.

Tall 8vo. Original silver lettered green cloth-backed pictorial upper boards (Fine), slipcase (Fine). Pp. xiii + 447, illus with coloured plates (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2007 The Folio Society hardback, xiii+447pp with slip case.Small stain to slipcase otherwise little used. N5.

Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarter green cloth, spine lettered in silver and papered boards illustated pictorially. Fine in fine slipcase, as issued. Illustrated in colour and b/w, with photographs and plates.This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). Large octavo, xiv, 447 pages with numerous illustrations and diagrams plus 7 colour plates. Quarter contrasting cloth and pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in the slipcase (very slightly sunned and rubbed). New foreword by Paul Scofield.

8vo, 447pp. A very good hardback copy in lightly marked slipcase.

Fine. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book in slipcase. Second printing, 447 pages, Colour illustrations and Diagrams in text. Challenges scientific and cultural othordoxy about how language is acquired and used, by arguing that it is a human instinct, built into the biology of the brain. Fine book in a Very Good slipcase. Scratches to side and base of slipcase. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

London 1994. Illustrated. 494 pages. Pocket.[#212389].

Condition: BUONO USATO. INGLESE Inglese, data e firma appartenenza alla guardia anteriore, rilegatura editoriale rigida, cartonata, nera con titoli argento al solo dorso, sovraccoperta illustrata, con leggere tracce di polvere, usura da scaffalatura e sbiadita al dorso, piega al risvolto anteriore, pagine avorio in buonissimo stato di conservazione, piega all'angolo sup.di alcune carte. Numero pagine 494.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete with slipcase. Only very minor wear to cover. Internally, clean and fresh, with unmarked and uncreased pages. Overall, very sound and presentable. Publisher's note: "Steve Pinker discusses the idea that language is an instinct, as innate to us as flying is to geese. This book covers the biological origin, acquisition by children and the grammatical structure of human language." xiii, 447 pp. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Language & Linguistics; Biolinguistics; Language and languages; Psycholinguistics; Language and languages--Philosophy; Instinct (Philosophy); Language acquisition; Add. Inventory No: 230202ABJ012051.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Folio Society hardback edition, 2008, in a slipcase with no jacket as issued. In overall fine, unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text , diagrams and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 2nd Printing Folio Edition. Green quarter-bound cloth boards with mixed colour illustrations and bright silver gilt titling to the spine. IN the publishers' original green SLIPCASE. (xiii) + 447 pp. Illustrated with colour plates. Appendix; Notes; References; Glossary; Index. The book is still in the original shrink-wrap which has only been opened to access the publisher's details, so the book is unread, unused and there are No Inscriptions or other Marks." A marvellously readable book.illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it 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". This is an Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright 'As New' copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

in-8, rel. éd. sous jaquette, neuf, 494p.

hardcover. Condition: Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A good sized hardback silver blocked titles on the spine, comes with a nice box, slipcase. This wonderful book is in really super good, clean condition. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. First published in 2008, this specific book is the second printing 2009. 447 pages all intact and nice tight binding. All pages, text and illustrations are in fabulous, clean, readable order. It looks like the book has hardly been used or read. Set in Granjon at The Folio Society. Printed on Abbey Wove Paper at Martins the Printers Ltd, Berwick on Tweed. Quarter bound in cloth by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh with Modigliani Paper sides printed with a design by the artist, Andy Martin. Another excellent book from The Folio Society.