Posted on 22/09/07
Words to get your neurons firing
THE STUFF OF THOUGHTLanguage as a Window into Human NatureBy Steven PinkerViking 481 pages, $37.50Space-time, sexuality, justice, divinity and degradation, power and fairness - these, according to Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, are "ingrained in our mother tongue." Of course, the expression of such concepts varies depending on the language. Nevertheless, Pinker insists, "our conversations, our jokes, our curses, our legal disputes, the names we give our babies" reveal the nature of the beast. Tell me what you say, and I will tell you who you are.
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