Full name: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Author: Steven Pinker Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, Award winners, Psychology, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon OpenLibrary Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061336461 9780060958336 0060958332

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.   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   was first published. Similar books: The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker Words and Rules by Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker The First Word by Christine Kenneally The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher How Language Works by David Crystal Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar The Symbolic Species by Terrence W. Deacon Adam's Tongue by Derek Bickerton Language Play by David Crystal The Articulate Mammal by Jean Aitchison The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella Vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg Emergence by Steven Johnson The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra