Language Instinct

Pinker, Steven

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Aimed at the popular science market, this account of the origins and nature of language is entertaining and intellectually stimulating.

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Publish Date: 02/04/2015
ISBN: 9780141980775 Category: Tags: , ,

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‘Dazzling… Pinker’s big idea is that language is an instinct…as innate to us as flying is to geese… Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker’s investigations’
– Independent

‘A marvellously readable book… illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects’ – Nature

Additional information

Weight 354 g
Dimensions 198 × 130 × 23 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

ix, 524

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

401 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K