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THE STUFF OF THOUGHT
Language as a Window into Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Viking Press, 2007
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Clinicians will learn about the confluence of language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature.
What does swearing reveal about emotions? What does innuendo disclose about relationships? Pinker discusses how our use of prepositions and tenses taps into peculiarly human concepts of space and time, and how our nouns and verbs speak to our notions of matter. Even the names we give our babies have implications about our relations to our children and to society. Pinker takes on scientific questions like whether language affects thought, as well as forays into everyday life: why is bulk e-mail called spam, and how do romantic comedies get such mileage out of the ambiguities of dating?
Steven Pinker, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and the author of many books about language and the mind.
17 CE credits; 512 pages
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