The Sense of Style
The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
(Sprache: Englisch)
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?
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Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?
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A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?
In The Sense of Style , the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the 21st century, Pinker doesn't carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. 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 knowhow,and an ability to savor and reverse-engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason andevidence, 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker, geboren 1954, studierte Psychologie in Montreal und an der Harvard University. 20 Jahre lange lehrte er am Department of Brain and Cognitive Science am MIT in Boston und ist seit 2003 Professor für Psychologie an der Harvard University. Seine Forschungen beschäftigen sich mit Sprache und Denken, außerdem schreibt er regelmäßig für die "New York Times", "Time" und "The New Republic". Sein Werk ist mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet worden.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Steven Pinker
- 2014, 368 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Viking
- ISBN-10: 0525427929
- ISBN-13: 9780525427926
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2014
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Englisch
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