The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Autor Steven Pinkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2015
What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style.
More than ever before, the currency of our social and cultural lives is the written word, from Twitter and texting to blogs, e-readers and old-fashioned books. But most style guides fail to prepare people for the challenges of writing in the 21st century, portraying it as a minefield of grievous errors rather than a form of pleasurable mastery. They fail to deal with an inescapable fact about language: it changes over time, adapted by millions of writers and speakers to their needs. Confusing changes in the world with moral decline, every generation believes the kids today are degrading society and taking language with it. A guide for the new millennium, writes Steven Pinker, has to be different.
Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker replaces the recycled dogma of previous style guides with reason and evidence. This thinking person's guide to good writing shows why style still matters: in communicating effectively, in enhancing the spread of ideas, in earning a reader's trust and, not least, in adding beauty to the world. Eye-opening, mind-expanding and cheerful,The Sense of Styleshows that good style is part of what it means to be human.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241957714
ISBN-10: 0241957710
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241957710
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Steven
Pinkeris
one
of
the
world's
most
influential
thinkers
and
writers
on
the
human
condition.
His
popular
and
highly
praised
books
includeThe
Better
Angels
of
Our
Nature,The
Sense
of
Style,The
Stuff
of
Thought,The
Blank
Slate,How
the
Mind
Works,
andThe
Language
Instinct.
The
recipient
of
several
major
awards
for
his
teaching,
books,
and
scientific
research,
Pinker
is
Harvard
College
Professor
and
Johnstone
Family
Professor
of
Psychology
at
Harvard
University.
He
also
writes
frequently
for
TheNew
York
Times,
theGuardianand
other
publications.
He
has
been
named
Humanist
of
the
Year,
Prospect
magazine's
"The
World's
Top
100
Public
Intellectuals,"
Foreign
Policy's
"100
Global
Thinkers,"
andTimemagazine's
"The
100
Most
Influential
People
in
the
World
Today."