The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Fascinating book about how language and thinking are interlated. This covers both ways: language affecting thought and thinking affecting language. Pinker's "psycho-linguistics" has intricate grammatical underpinnings and my eyes always start to glaze over at the finer points of the "past participle", so there is a lot of that to slog through and I think the introductory example of the cardinality of 9/11 events rings rather hollow, but over all this is an enlightening book about how we talking animals think and well worth reading.
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