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The Stuff of Thought | |||
| Language as a Window into Human Nature | Social Studies | |||
| Steven Pinker | ||||
| Viking 2007 499 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0670063274 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| The psychologist Steven Pinker combines his interests in language and human nature in this fascinating study of the ways in which we create and use words - and what they reveal about ourselves and how we grasp reality. Exploring the semantics of ordinary language - news headlines, legal disputes, jokes, people's names - he argues that our thoughts are built around certain core ideas, such as space, force, kinship and contamination, and the metaphors and combinations we use reach back to these primal concepts. | ||||
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