THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT, Steven Pinker

Judul/Title: The Language Instinct
Penulis/Author: Steven Pinker
Penerbit/Publisher: Penguin Books
Edisi/Edition: 1994
Halaman/Pages: 494
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 20 x 2cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 120.000
Kategori/Category: Disewa/Rent

Call No.: 400.14/Pin/l/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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'Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct... as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigation' --Robert Winder in the Independent

A marvellously readable book... illuminates every facet of human languange: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, its acquisition by childern, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the patology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects'

--Christoper Longuet-Higgins in Nature

'Where does languange come from? How do we all know how to speak so effortlessly? ... Pinker debunks with panache, cuts through the confusion of jargon, and tells a mean anecdote. He does for language what David Attenborough does for animals'
--John Gribbin in the Sunday Times

'Language is full of mysteries, which Pinker excavates like a pig after truffles ... he writes splendidly'

-- Nigel Hawkes in The Times

' Reading Steven Pinker's book is one of the biggest favours I've ever done my brain ... highly accessible to the general reader yet at the same time seminal for professionals ... exhilaratingly briliant'

--Richard Dawkins

'An extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written'
-- Noam Chomsky