The Language Instinct - Couverture souple

Pinker, Steven

 
9780060976514: The Language Instinct

Synopsis

New York. 20 cm. 494 p. : ill. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. How the mind creates language. Subtitle on cover:. 1st HarperPerennial ed. Originally published: New York : W. Morrow and Co. , c1994. Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-472) and index .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0060976519

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Quatrième de couverture

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.

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