The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature

The Resource The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature
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The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature
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language as a window into human nature
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Steven Pinker
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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
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

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