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26 de ago. de 2008 · In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker examines samples of everyday speech to validate modern theories of cognitive science. Pinker is currently a professor and experimental psychologist at Harvard University.
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- Steven Pinker
- $16.69
- Penguin Books
In this book, Steven Pinker explains how the mind works in a completely new style--by examining the way we use words. By looking closely at our everyday speech--our conversations, our jokes, our legal disputes--Pinker paints a vivid picture of the thoughts and emotions that populate our mental lives.
- Steven Pinker
- 2007
Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can tell us about ourselves.
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By that token it seems easy to infer that language is the stuff of thought and a window into human nature. How all this takes place is the business of this new book from MIT language and cognition researcher Steven Pinker (once of MIT and now Harvard University).
- Stuart Hannabuss
- 2008
15 de set. de 2018 · This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style. Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas.
1 de jan. de 2007 · Pinker reveals how our use of prepositions and tenses taps into peculiarly human concepts of space and time, and how our nouns and verbs speak to our notions of matter. Even the names we give our babies have important things to say about our relations to our children and to society.
Steven Pinker analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can tell us about ourselves. He shows how we use space and motion as metaphors for more abstracted ideas, and uncovers the deeper structures of human thought that have been shaped by evolutionary history.
