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The Language Instinct
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Author : Steven Pinker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1995
The Language Instinct written by Steven Pinker and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this exhilarating book, Steven Pinker asserts that language should not be seen as a cultural artefact that we learn in the way we learn to tell the time, but as a distinct part of the biological make-up of our brains.
Does A Language Instinct Exist The Language Instinct Debate
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Author : Linda Neuhaus
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-09
Does A Language Instinct Exist The Language Instinct Debate written by Linda Neuhaus and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.0, University of Duisburg-Essen (Department of English Linguistics), course: Developments in modern Linguistics, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In 1994, when Steven Pinker's book "The language instinct" was published, the linguistic world was confronted with the renewed debate, whether language comes from innate ideas or is just the result of experiencing and learning. This important debate which concerns linguistics until today will be the topic of the following work. The important question is, if a language instinct really exists and which evidence one can provide to assume that our language ability is inherited. Until today, there is great discussion and speculation about innate language ideas and the most important proponent for them nowadays is Steven Pinker. To set his nativist ideas in an appropriate context, it is necessary to explain where the ideas of "nativism" and the opposite linguistic school "empiricism" come from and what characteristics they show. This constructs a context and prepares a base for the focus on Pinker's book. The most important founder of today's nativist thoughts is certainly Noam Chomsky, whose ideas were the basis for Pinker's assumption of a language instinct. For this reason, I will present a short summary of Chomsky's ideas as the last aspect of the first chapter. Pinker's arguments put forward in his work "The language instinct" will form the main part and second chapter of my work. I will present his definition of a language instinct and his given evidence for its existence. Because of the complexity of the pieces of evidence put forward in his whole work, I will pick up two of his most important aspects for innate language ideas: Pidgin and creoles and the case of the KE-Family. Afterwards, I will focus on two of his critics, Geoffrey Samspon and Stefan Schaden, because they composed bo
The Language Instinct Debate
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Author : Geoffrey Sampson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2005-05-01
The Language Instinct Debate written by Geoffrey Sampson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitive response to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and Noam Chomsky's nativism. In this revised and expanded new edition, Sampson revisits his original arguments in the light of fresh evidence that has emerged since the original publication. Since Chomsky revolutionized the study of language in the 1960s, it has increasingly come to be accepted that language and other knowledge structures are hard-wired in our genes. According to this view, human beings are born with a rich structure of cognition already in place. But people do not realize how thin the evidence for that idea is. The 'Language Instinct' Debate examines the various arguments for instinctive knowledge, and finds that each one rests on false premisses or embodies logical fallacies. The structures of language are shown to be purely cultural creations. With a new chapter entitled 'How People Really Speak' which uses corpus data to analyse how language is used in spontaneous English conversation, responses to critics, extensive revisions throughout, and a new preface by Paul Postal of New York University, this new edition will be an essential purchase for students, academics, and general readers interested in the debate about the 'language instinct'.
Educating Eve
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Author : Geoffrey Sampson
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1999-01
Educating Eve written by Geoffrey Sampson and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01 with Creativity (Linguistics). categories.
Are we creatures who learn new things? Or does human mental development consist of awakening structures of thought? A view has gained ground - advocated, for example, by Steven Pinker's book The Language Instinct - that language in much of its detail is hard-wired in our genes. Others add that this holds too for much of the specific knowledge and understanding expressed in language. When the first human evolved from apes (it is claimed), her biological inheritance comprised not just a distinctive anatomy but a rich structure of cognition. This book examines the various arguments for instinctive knowledge, with the author arguing that each one rests on false premises or embodies a logical fallacy. A different picture of learning is suggested by Karl Popper's account of knowledge growing through conjectures and refutations. The facts of human language are best explained, Sampson contends, by taking language acquisition to be a case of Popperian learning. In this way, we are not born know-alls; we are born knowing nothing but able to learn anything and this is why we can find ways to think and talk about a world that goes on changing.
The Language Instinct
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Author : Steven Pinker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Language Instinct written by Steven Pinker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biolinguistics categories.
Steve Pinker discusses the idea that language is an instinct, as innate to us as flying is to geese. This book covers the biological origin, acquisition by children and the grammatical structure of human language.
The Language Instinct
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Author : Steven Pinker
language : en
Publisher: Lane, Allen
Release Date : 1994
The Language Instinct written by Steven Pinker and has been published by Lane, Allen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biolinguistics categories.
The Language Instinct
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Author : Steven Pinker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-02-27
The Language Instinct written by Steven Pinker and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-27 with Philosophy categories.
'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
The Language Instinct Debate
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Author : Geoffrey Sampson
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-04-01
The Language Instinct Debate written by Geoffrey Sampson and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitive response to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and Noam Chomsky's nativism. In this revised and expanded new edition, Sampson revisits his original arguments in the light of fresh evidence that has emerged since the original publication. Since Chomsky revolutionized the study of language in the 1960s, it has increasingly come to be accepted that language and other knowledge structures are hard-wired in our genes. According to this view, human beings are born with a rich structure of cognition already in place. But people do not realize how thin the evidence for that idea is. The 'Language Instinct' Debate examines the various arguments for instinctive knowledge, and finds that each one rests on false premisses or embodies logical fallacies. The structures of language are shown to be purely cultural creations. With a new chapter entitled 'How People Really Speak' which uses corpus data to analyse how language is used in spontaneous English conversation, responses to critics, extensive revisions throughout, and a new preface by Paul Postal of New York University, this new edition will be an essential purchase for students, academics, and general readers interested in the debate about the 'language instinct'.
The Language Instinct
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Author : Steven Pinker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
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The Language Myth
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Author : Vyvyan Evans
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-02
The Language Myth written by Vyvyan Evans and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Drawing on cutting-edge research, Evans presents an alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work.