Description

In this vintage, the planet's expert on head and language lucidly explains all you always desired to find out about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how mental performance computes it, and how it developed. With deft utilization of types of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast understanding of language into a compelling tale: language is just 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 General Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. Because The Language Reaction was initially printed this version contains an update on developments in the technology of language.