语言本能
The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker · 初版 1994 年
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为什么值得读
- 用浅显通俗的语言深入浅出解释复杂认知理论
- 全面覆盖句法、语法体系与语言发展等基础知识
- 结合全球方言现象，破除读者对语法的教条认知
摘自序言……我从未见过对语言不感兴趣的人。我写这本书就是为了满足这种好奇心。语言正逐渐被纳入我们称之为科学的、能带来独特满足感的理解体系中，但这一消息一直秘而不宣。对于语言爱好者，我希望能展现日常言语中蕴含的高雅与丰富之境，它远比词源学、生僻词汇和用法细节等局部考据更为耀眼夺目。对于科普读者，我希望能阐明近期发现背后的深意（或者在很多情况下，并
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……威廉·斯特伦克和E·B·怀特的《The Elements of Style》（风格的要素）。我从刚学会写字起就喜欢写作。直到17岁我才读到这本书，它彻底打通了我的思路，让我能以一种更能帮助到别人的方式去写作。还有史蒂芬·平克的《The Language Instinct》（语言本能）。看来我是真喜欢写作和语言。就像C·S·路易斯一样，史蒂芬·平克也有一种把晦涩难懂的题材写得通俗易懂、甚至饶有趣味的本领。书里的主题是……
…Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E. B. White. I liked writing since I learned how to. I didn't find this book until I was 17, and it unlocked me to write in a way that better helped others. The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker. I guess I like writing and language. Like C. S. Lewis, Steven Pinker has a way of writing about hard things that makes them easy to understand, even enjoyable. The subject matter is…
史蒂芬·平克的书《The Language Instinct》（语言本能）用大白话几乎涵盖了外行想了解的关于语言基础的一切。它涵盖了句法学、乔姆斯基语法、规定性语法与描写性语法、历史以及……
Steven Pinker's book ‘The Language Instinct’ talks about pretty much everything a layman would want to know about the basics of language, in layman's terms. It covers syntax, Chomskian grammars, prescriptive vs descriptive grammar, history and…
如果你喜欢这篇文章，不妨看看史蒂芬·平克的《The Language Instinct》（语言本能），整本书都在讲语言背后的认知基础。他还有本不错的续作叫《The Stuff of Thought》（思想本质），我还没完全啃完，那本更多是讲规则如何……
If you enjoyed this article, check out the book _The_Language_Instinct_ by Steven Pinker, which is all about the cognitive basis behind language. He has a good followup that I haven't quite gotten through yet, called _The_Stuff_of_Thought_ that's a bit more about how rules…
正如其他人指出的那样，这似乎是因为作者的母语不是英语。我特别喜欢这个观点，这让我想到了史蒂芬·平克的《The Language Instinct》，他在书里提到了一些统计数据，全球最常见的英语方言其实并不在那些英语“母语”国家，而是在东南亚地区，还有印度，以及越来越……
As others have pointed out, this seems to be due to the writer not learning English as their first language. I love this, and it reminds me of Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct" where he mentions some stats about the most common dialects of English world-wide are not actually in "native" English speaking countries, but in regions in south-east Asia, as well as India and, increasingly,…
……看不到其余的处理过程，而且被蒙在鼓里以为所有计算都是自己完成的，而实际上它只是读取了其他进程的结果而已。另外，强烈推荐史蒂芬·平克写的《The Language Instinct》（语言本能）。
…is blind to the rest of the processes and it is tricked into believing that it does all the calculations while it merely reads the results from other processes. Also, I highly recommend the book The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker.
史蒂芬·平克的佳作《The Language Instinct》（语言本能）认为萨丕尔-沃尔夫假说纯属扯淡。虽然这不算全书最出彩的部分，但依然非常值得一读。随手举个例子，平克追溯了所谓“爱斯基摩人对雪有几十种称呼”这个神话的演变……
Steven Pinker's wonderful book "The Language Instinct" claims the the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is bunk. It's not the strongest part of the book, but still well worth reading. As a taste, Pinker tracks the evolution of the myth that the eskimos have more…