The Language Instinct : How the Mind Creates Language by Pinker, Steven

Author: Pinker, Steven

Philosophy of language

Published on 2 April 2015 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 528 pages
197 x 132 x 24 | 366g

‘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 investigations’- Independent’A marvellously readable book… illuminates every facet 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’ – Nature