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Language As A Window Into Human Nature

by Steven Pinker
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Publisher: Penguin Books LTD., October of 2019 ‧
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In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are.

Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children''s names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we threaten and bribe and seduce in such elaborate, often comical ways? How can a choice of metaphor damn a politician or start a war? And why do we rarely say what we actually mean?

Language, as Steven Pinker shows, is at the heart of our lives, and through the way we use it - whether to inform, persuade, entertain or manipulate - we can glimpse the very essence of what makes us human.

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Stuff Of Thought

Language As A Window Into Human Nature

by Steven Pinker

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ISBN: 9780141992341
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD.
Release Date: October of 2019
Language: English
Format: Audiobook
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Categories: Audiobooks in English > Fiction > Linguistics and Philology
EAN: 9780141992341

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Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker nasceu em Montreal, Canadá, em 1954. É um intelectual, psicólogo experimental, cientista cognitivo e autor de vários livros premiados e traduzidos para diversas línguas. É internacionalmente conhecido pela sua defesa - vigorosa e de grande alcance - da psicologia evolucionista e da teoria computacional da mente. É professor de Psicologia na Universidade de Harvard, onde desenvolve projetos de pesquisa na área da cognição, linguagem e relações sociais. É membro da National Academy of Sciences e já foi distinguido com inúmeros prémios pelo seu trabalho, quer como professor quer como investigador. Faz parte das listas de pensadores mais influentes da Time, Foreign Policy e outras revistas especializadas e de opinião.

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