The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Gui... Steven Pinker
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Gui... Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Is the English language…
Specifikacia The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Gui... Steven Pinker
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Gui... Steven Pinker
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media?
Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Why should any of us care?In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical know-how, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others.
He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.
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