Mind Expanding Books

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Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language

Douglas R. Hofstadter 1998

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Lost in an artβ€”the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet ClΓ©ment Marot.”Le ton beau de Marot” literally means ”The sweet tone of ...

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker 2000

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The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use ...