Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language - Softcover

Buch 14 von 14: Science Masters

Pinker, Steven

 
9780060958404: Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0060958405 ISBN 13: 9780060958404
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this original and totally entertaining book written in the same engaging style that illuminated his bestselling classics, The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, Seven Pinker explores the profound mysteries of language.

By picking a deceptively simple phenomenon--regular and irregular verbs--Pinker connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and the humanities: the history of languages; the theories of Noam Chomosky and his critics; the attempts to create language using computer simulations of neural networks; what there is to learn from children's grammatical "mistakes"; the latest techniques in identifying genes and imaging the brain; and major ideas in the history of Western philosophy. He makes sense of all this with the help of a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammer of creative rules. His theory extends beyond language and offers insight in the very nature of the human mind.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0060958405
ISBN 13 
9780060958404
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Anzahl der Seiten
368
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