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Words and Rules - The Ingredients Of Language (Paperback)
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Words and Rules - The Ingredients Of Language (Paperback)
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List price R580
Loot Price R535
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You Save R45 (8%)
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How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue?
Why do languages change over time, making Shakespearean English
difficult for us and Chaucer's English almost incomprehensible? Why
do languages have so many quirks and irregularities? Are they all
fundamentally alike? How are new words created? Where in the brain
does language reside?In Words and Rules , Steven Pinker answers
these and many other questions. His book shares the wit and style
of his classic, The Language Instinct , but explores language in a
completely different way. In Words and Rules , Pinker explains the
profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively simple
phenomenon and examining it from every angle. The
phenomenon,regular and irregular verbs,connects an astonishing
array of topics in the sciences and humanities: the history of
languages, the theories of Noam Chomsky and his critics the
attempts to simulate language using computer simulations of neural
networks the illuminating errors of children as they begin to speak
the nature of human concepts the peculiarities of the English
language major ideas in the history of Western philosophy the
latest techniques in identifying genes and imaging the living
brain.Pinker makes sense of all of this with the help of a single,
powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of
memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules. The idea
extends beyond language and offers insight into the very nature of
the human mind. This is a sparkling, eye-opening and utterly
original book by one of the world's leading cognitive scientists.
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