Steven Pinker

Language, Cognition, and Human Nature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collects for the first time Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker is a highly eminent cognitive scientist, and these essays emphasize the importance of language and its connections to cognition, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780190259280
• ISBN-10: 0190259280
• Artikelnr.: 47868073

Autorenporträt

Steven Pinker is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time and The New Republic, and is the author of eight books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, and, most recently, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. Formal models of language learning
* 2. A computational theory of the mental imagery medium
* 3. Rules and connections in human language
* 4. When does human object recognition use a viewer-centered reference
frame?
* 5. Natural language and natural selection
* 6. The acquisition of argument structure
* 7. The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source
* 8. Why nature and nurture won't go away
* 9. The faculty of language: What's special about it?
* 10. So how does the mind work?
* 11. Deep commonalities between life and mind
* 12. Rationales for indirect speech: The theory of the strategic
speaker
* 13. The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and
language
* Author Biography