Description
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature.This eclectic collection spans Pinker's thirty-year career, exploring his favorite themes in greater depth and scientific detail. It includes thirteen of Pinker's classic articles, ranging over topics such as language development in children, mental imagery, the recognition of shapes, the computational architecture of the mind, the meaning and uses of verbs, the evolution of language and cognition, the nature-nurture debate, and the logic of innuendo and euphemism. Each outlines a major theory or takes up an argument with another prominent scholar, such as Stephen Jay Gould, Noam Chomsky, or Richard Dawkins. Featuring a new introduction by Pinker that discusses his books and scholarly work, this collection reflects essential contributions to cognitive science by one of our leading thinkers and public intellectuals.
Table of Contents
Introduction1. Formal models of language learning2. A computational theory of the mental imagery medium3. Rules and connections in human language4. When does human object recognition use a viewer-centered reference frame?5. Natural language and natural selection6. The acquisition of argument structure7. The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source8. Why nature and nurture won't go away9. The faculty of language: What's special about it?10. So how does the mind work?11. Deep commonalities between life and mind12. Rationales for indirect speech: The theory of the strategic speaker13. The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and languageAuthor Biography
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