The Sense of Style
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- Titel: The Sense of Style : The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century / Steven Pinker. Narrator: Arthur Morey
- Person(en): Pinker, Steven ; Morey, Arthur
- Ausgabe: Unabridged
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource (10 audio files) : digital
- Erschienen: New York : Books on Tape, 2014
- ISBN/Preis: 9780553545838 (sound recording)
- Schlagwörter: Nonfiction ; Reference ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=B52C6147-2DD4-4312-B739-6642C6FF073B Excerpt
- Anmerkungen: Unabridged Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 349968 KB).
Inhalt: A short and entertaining audiobook on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven PinkerWhy 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 twenty-first 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...
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