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.

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

Health, Fitness & Dieting

PINKER, STEVEN

Psychology & Counseling

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this original and totally entertaining book written in the same engaging style that illuminated his bestselling classics, The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, Seven Pinker explores the profound mysteries of language.
By picking a deceptively simple phenomenon--regular and irregular verbs--Pinker connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and the humanities: the history of languages; the theories of Noam Chomosky and his critics; the attempts to create language using computer simulations of neural networks; what there is to learn from children's grammatical "mistakes"; the latest techniques in identifying genes and imaging the brain; and major ideas in the history of Western philosophy. He makes sense of all this with the help of a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammer of creative rules. His theory extends beyond language and offers insight in the very nature of the human mind.

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Harper-perennial

In The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, 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, how it evolved. With wit, education, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, 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 in bats.

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Perennial / HarperCollins

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.

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

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

“Deliciously erudite.” —William Safire, New York Times Magazine “A riveting detective story.” —Chicago Tribune Steven Pinker, author of the landmark bestsellers The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate—and one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists—and offers an eye-opening explanation of how human beings learn and use language in Words and Rules. First published in 2000, Words and Rules remains one of Pinker’s most provocative and accessible books, illuminating the fascinating relationship between the brain, the mind, and the how language makes us human.

The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language (P.S.)

HarperCollins e-books

Paperback: 512 pages Publisher: Penguin Language: English ISBN-10: 0141015470 ISBN-13: 978-0141015477 ASIN: B009XN04R4 Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

This title is shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize 2012. This acclaimed steven pinker, author of "the language instinct" and "the blank slate", argues that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? the images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. Extraordinarily, however, steven pinker shows violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare - really has declined from prehistory to today.we are much less likely to die at someone else's hands than ever before. Even the horrific carnage of the last century, when compared to the dangers of pre - state societies, is part of this trend. Debunking both the idea of the 'noble savage' and an over - simplistic hobbesian notion of a 'nasty, brutish and short' life, steven pinker argues that modernity and its cultural institutions are actually makin

The Better Angels of Our Nature

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and the forthcoming Enlightenment Now"Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." -Time Now updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind  explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

VIKING

The Blank Slate: Denying Human Nature in Modern Life

E-Penguin

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by PINKER, STEVEN. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by PINKER, STEVEN

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by PINKER, STEVEN. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

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

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language (P.S.)

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature

The Better Angels of Our Nature

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The Blank Slate: Denying Human Nature in Modern Life