Come parlano le creature intelligenti e come addatano il linguaggio alla comunicazione.
This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
Using examples of the way language is used in daily life from the mouths of children to the pontifications of politicians, Pinker explores this system and our instinct to use it.
'Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese.
In this exhilarating book, Steven Pinker asserts that language should not be seen as a cultural artefact that we learn in the way we learn to tell the time, but as a distinct part of the biological make-up of our brains.
"Everyone has questions about language. Some are from everyday experience: Why do immigrants struggle with a new language, only to have their fluent children ridicule their grammatical errors? Why can't...
It comes so naturally that we are apt to forget what a miracle it is. Pursuing the ideas of Darwin and Chomsky, Pinker offers a look at why we use language and where this ability comes from.
This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.