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The Language Instinct
ISBN/GTIN

The Language Instinct

How the Mind Creates Language
PaperbackPaperback
Ranking79187inSprachen
CHF23.90

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'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations'
- Independent

'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' - Nature
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-198077-5
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date02/04/2015
Pages528 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 197 mm, Thickness 24 mm
Weight366 g
Article no.20823563
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.17217208
Product groupSprachen
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Author

Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive scientist. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won many prizes for his research, teaching, and his eleven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, one of Foreign Policy's 'World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals' and Time's '100 Most Influential People in the World Today'.