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Cargando... The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007 original; edición 2008)por Steven Pinker
Información de la obraEl mundo de las palabras : una introducción a la naturaleza humana por Steven Pinker (2007) Top Five Books of 2013 (1,047) » 3 más Cargando...
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Linguistic determinism is just one of the foes Pinker takes on. He engages with a number of rival theories of language. Sometimes he cuts a few argumentative corners in the interests of mounting a persuasive case. Still, it is not hard to forgive him. He may be partisan, but he is never boring. And he does know a lot about words. Pertenece a las series editorialesAparece abreviada en
Psychologist Pinker explains how the mind works in a completely new way--by examining how we use words. Every time we swear, we reveal something about human emotions. When we use an innuendo to convey a bribe, threat, or sexual come-on (rather than just blurting it out), we disclose something about human relationships. Our use of prepositions and tenses tap into peculiarly human concepts of space and time, and our nouns and verbs tap into mental models of matter and causation. Even the names we give our babies, as they change from decade to decade, have important things to day about our relations to our children and to society. Pinker takes on both scientific questions--such as whether language affects thought, and which of our concepts are innate--and questions from the headlines and everyday life.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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