Feb 24 2011 22:45 756 notes

badmoonrise:

thedailywhat:

This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: From the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts comes the whiteboarding of experimental psychologist Steven Pinker’s illuminating talk, “Language as a Window into Human Nature,” which asks and answers the question “why do we feel more comfortable being indirect when there is no uncertainty about what we really mean?”

(Make sure to stick around for the bonus relevancy @ 8:05: “Why are political revolutions triggered when a crowd gathers in a public square?”)

[misterhonk.]

Steven Pinker is a brilliant linguistic psychologist and his theories are really enlightening. I suggest everyone to read his books for they are really easy to understand and approach language in a way thats so obvious and so profound at the same time.

This is why I love studying linguistics!

(Source: thedailywhat)

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    A ten minute overview of human nature…
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    Personally, I think it’s a little more complex than this. There...explicitness is more...
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    I can’t wait for the language part of cognition. It better meet my expectations.
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    This is why I love studying linguistics!
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    Interesting! Especially the part about political assemblies.
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