The Story of Human Language Part I
Discover the origins of human language with curated books like Steven Pinker's *The Language Instinct* and Benjamin Lee Whorf's *Language, Thought, and Reality*. Explore linguistics, cognitive science, and how language shapes our world in this essential reading list on the story of communication.
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The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker
In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved. With wit, erudition, and deft use it everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar bats. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.
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Language, Thought, and Reality
by Benjamin Lee Whorf
Writings by the pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf, including his famous work on the Hopi language as well as general reflections on language and meaning.
