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发表于2024-09-20
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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?
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 good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, 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.
Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.
不太懂语言树的那一张,不过仅仅从Pinker自己完美的风格中就已经能学到很多。
评分读过最实用的写作书 academese晚期患者的曙光
评分看了两遍,我找他的文章做了个简单对比,他自己平时就是那么写文章的
评分想必读此书的人都多少知道作者作为语言学家的大名,于是或许以为这书与过去的那些写作指南一样充斥着学究气息,作者的工作就是把学究气规规矩矩塞入固定的模式框架中:某某某得这样用,不能那样用……的确,例如我之前读过的《Grammatically Correct》便是这样的风格,想来大部分写作指导书亦应如此。然而,这本书好就好在跳脱了同类型书籍的死板,在一开始就指出过去那些写作书,包括是被大家公认为神书的《The Elements of Style》,都有很大的局限性,好比对语言的发展本质欠缺考虑,又好比立下一大批规则,使得人们在写作实践中只知道无脑遵循,毫无灵活性可言,实际上规则完全可以打破,只是需要足够的理由和强大的独立思考能力。作者正是要告诉我们,比任何写作指南都更为重要的是自主深入的思考过程。
评分不太懂语言树的那一张,不过仅仅从Pinker自己完美的风格中就已经能学到很多。
先看下面一段文字: 近年来,越来越多的心理学家和语言学家将注意力转向儿童语言习得的问题。本文将评述这一过程近年来的研究。 一开头,就闻到了一股学术报告的味道,立马就有点叉走人的心。 再看这句话: 小孩子不用专门上课,就能获得说一门语言的能力,他们怎么做到的? 好...
评分先看下面一段文字: 近年来,越来越多的心理学家和语言学家将注意力转向儿童语言习得的问题。本文将评述这一过程近年来的研究。 一开头,就闻到了一股学术报告的味道,立马就有点叉走人的心。 再看这句话: 小孩子不用专门上课,就能获得说一门语言的能力,他们怎么做到的? 好...
The Sense of Style pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024