Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
The Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Steven Pinker has beennamed one of
Time magazine's "Hundred Most Important People in the World Today," and has been awarded numerous prizes for his research, teaching, and books. He is the author of six books, including
How the Mind Works and
The Blank Slate (both Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners of the William James Book Prize), as well as
Words and Rules and
The Stuff of Thought. He is a frequent contributor to
Time,
The New Republic, and the
New York Times.
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