The Language Instinct

副标题: How the Mind Creates Language

ISBN: 9780688121419

出版社: William Morrow & Co

出版年: 1994-02

页数: 494

定价: USD 23.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

In The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, 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, how it evolved. With wit, education, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats.