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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct English? How did language evolve? In this landmark book, Pinker explains the mysteries of language within a coherent theory- that language is an adaptation for communication.'Dazzl ...Show more
The Language Instinct (Popular Penguin) by Steven Pinker
$9.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinctpropelled him to worldwide fame in 1994. His groundbreaking book's premise - that language is instinctual rather than acquired - so shook the foundations of biological science that the reverberations are still being felt today.
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind by Steven Pinker
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Describes various facets 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.
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th ...Show more
The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television by Steven Pinker
$12.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Why are some words rude and others aren't? Why can launching into expletives be so shocking - and sometimes so amusing? In this hilarious extract from his bestselling "The Stuff of Thought" Steven Pinker takes us on a fascinating journey through the world of profanities, to show us why we swear, how tab ...Show more
The Stuff of Thought : Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can ...Show more
The Stuff of Thought: : Language as a window into human nature by Steven Pinker
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can ...Show more
Words and Rules by Steven Pinker (Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT, Cambridge, USA)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
This text answers many questions about the amazing human ability called language. It explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, including the history of language and its simulation by computer neural networks.