You could call Steve Pinker, Harvard's star psychology professor, a public intellectual. He made his scholarly reputation with a 1990 article arguing that the human ability to learn language developed ...
Steven Pinker is a man stuffed with thoughts and gifted with language, a combination that has won him an unusually wide audience. In 1995, he published The Language Instinct, which was not just a best ...
In my previous post, What is Language For? I observed that by around 4 years of age, every cognitively normal human child on the planet is a linguistic genius. But the apparent ease with which each ...
In my previous post, What is Language For? I observed that by around 4 years of age, every cognitively normal human child on the planet is a linguistic genius. But the apparent ease with which each ...
Our opinions about language shape how we use it and whether we genuflect before certain distinctions or walk on by. Even John Simpson, who retired as chief editor of the OED in 2015, is made grumpy by ...
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