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The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature, Steven Pinker
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- Summary
- Psychologist Pinker explains how the mind works in a completely new way--by examining how we use words. Every time we swear, we reveal something about human emotions. When we use an innuendo to convey a bribe, threat, or sexual come-on (rather than just blurting it out), we disclose something about human relationships. Our use of prepositions and tenses tap into peculiarly human concepts of space and time, and our nouns and verbs tap into mental models of matter and causation. Even the names we give our babies, as they change from decade to decade, have important things to say about our relations to our children and to society. Pinker takes on both scientific questions--such as whether language affects thought, and which of our concepts are innate--and questions from the headlines and everyday life.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 499 p.
- Contents
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- Words and worlds
- Down the rabbit hole
- Fifty thousand innate concepts (and other radical theories of language and thought)
- Cleaving the air
- The metaphor metaphor
- What's in a name?
- The seven words you can't say on television
- Games people play
- Escaping the cave
- Isbn
- 9780670063277
- Label
- The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature
- Title
- The stuff of thought
- Title remainder
- language as a window into human nature
- Statement of responsibility
- Steven Pinker
- Subject
-
- Bedeutung
- Behavior
- Denken
- Denken
- Denken -- Sprache
- Emotion -- Sprache
- Kognition
- Language
- Language and languages -- Philosophy
- Language and languages -- Philosophy
- Language philosophy
- Philosophie
- Philosophy
- Pragmatik
- Bedeutung
- Psycholinguistics -- Cognition
- Psycholinguistik
- Semantik
- Semantik
- Sprache
- Sprache
- Sprache
- Sprache -- Denken
- Sprache -- Emotion
- Taal
- Thinking
- Thought and thinking
- Thought and thinking
- Thought and thinking
- Pragmatik
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Psychologist Pinker explains how the mind works in a completely new way--by examining how we use words. Every time we swear, we reveal something about human emotions. When we use an innuendo to convey a bribe, threat, or sexual come-on (rather than just blurting it out), we disclose something about human relationships. Our use of prepositions and tenses tap into peculiarly human concepts of space and time, and our nouns and verbs tap into mental models of matter and causation. Even the names we give our babies, as they change from decade to decade, have important things to say about our relations to our children and to society. Pinker takes on both scientific questions--such as whether language affects thought, and which of our concepts are innate--and questions from the headlines and everyday life.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pinker, Steven
- Dewey number
- 401
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- P107
- LC item number
- .P548 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
-
- 2008 J-791
- P 107
- NLM item number
- P655s 2007
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Language and languages
- Thought and thinking
- Language
- Philosophy
- Thinking
- Behavior
- Language and languages
- Thought and thinking
- Taal
- Denken
- Sprache
- Denken
- Sprache
- Emotion
- Denken
- Philosophie
- Psycholinguistik
- Sprache
- Kognition
- Psycholinguistics
- Language philosophy
- Thought and thinking
- Bedeutung
- Pragmatik
- Semantik
- Sprache
- Thought and thinking
- Bedeutung
- Pragmatik
- Semantik
- Sprache
- Label
- The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature, Steven Pinker
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-481) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Words and worlds -- Down the rabbit hole -- Fifty thousand innate concepts (and other radical theories of language and thought) -- Cleaving the air -- The metaphor metaphor -- What's in a name? -- The seven words you can't say on television -- Games people play -- Escaping the cave
- Control code
- ocn154308853
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 499 p.
- Isbn
- 9780670063277
- Lccn
- 2007026601
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o154308853
- (OCoLC)154308853
- Label
- The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature, Steven Pinker
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-481) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Words and worlds -- Down the rabbit hole -- Fifty thousand innate concepts (and other radical theories of language and thought) -- Cleaving the air -- The metaphor metaphor -- What's in a name? -- The seven words you can't say on television -- Games people play -- Escaping the cave
- Control code
- ocn154308853
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 499 p.
- Isbn
- 9780670063277
- Lccn
- 2007026601
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o154308853
- (OCoLC)154308853
Subject
- Bedeutung
- Behavior
- Denken
- Denken
- Denken -- Sprache
- Emotion -- Sprache
- Kognition
- Language
- Language and languages -- Philosophy
- Language and languages -- Philosophy
- Language philosophy
- Philosophie
- Philosophy
- Pragmatik
- Bedeutung
- Psycholinguistics -- Cognition
- Psycholinguistik
- Semantik
- Semantik
- Sprache
- Sprache
- Sprache
- Sprache -- Denken
- Sprache -- Emotion
- Taal
- Thinking
- Thought and thinking
- Thought and thinking
- Thought and thinking
- Pragmatik
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