The Language Instinct

In The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT, weaves his vast knowledge of language into a compelling theory: that language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats. Along the way, The Language Instinct lucidly explains the important issues your students need to know about language: how it works, how it evolved, how children learn it, how the brain computes it, and how it changes. ''A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book.''-New York Times Book Review

About the author

One of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World Today," Steven Pinker is the author of seven books, including How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate—both Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners of the William James Book Award. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher, and a frequent contributor to Time and the New York Times.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Pinker
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2007
• EAN: 9780061336461
• ISBN: 978-0-06-133646-1
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 205 mm x 25 mm
• Series: HarperPerennial Modern Classics; HarperPerennial Modern Classics
• Subjects: Education and learning; Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; EVOLUTION: GENERAL, SCIENCE: Philosophy & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY: COGNITION & THINKING, PHILOSOPHY: MIND, COMPOSITION & WRITING: ON LANGUAGE, SCIENCE: Cognitive Science, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Communication Studies, SOCIOLOGY: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: SCIENCE, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Psycholinguistics