The St. Michaels branch of the Talbot County Free Library Book Club is accepting new members. The meet at 6:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month.
The club will be discussing The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, by Stephen Pinker. Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, 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, how it evolved. With wit, education, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats.
“A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book.” —Michael Coe, New York Times Book Review
Thursday, February 9, 2012
6 pm
St Michaels Branch of Talbot County Free Library
Carpenter Alley
St Michaels, Maryland
(410) 745-5877
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