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发表于2024-11-22
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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.
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評分......It’s about getting it right.
評分不太懂語言樹的那一張,不過僅僅從Pinker自己完美的風格中就已經能學到很多。
評分......It’s about getting it right.
評分想必讀此書的人都多少知道作者作為語言學傢的大名,於是或許以為這書與過去的那些寫作指南一樣充斥著學究氣息,作者的工作就是把學究氣規規矩矩塞入固定的模式框架中:某某某得這樣用,不能那樣用……的確,例如我之前讀過的《Grammatically Correct》便是這樣的風格,想來大部分寫作指導書亦應如此。然而,這本書好就好在跳脫瞭同類型書籍的死闆,在一開始就指齣過去那些寫作書,包括是被大傢公認為神書的《The Elements of Style》,都有很大的局限性,好比對語言的發展本質欠缺考慮,又好比立下一大批規則,使得人們在寫作實踐中隻知道無腦遵循,毫無靈活性可言,實際上規則完全可以打破,隻是需要足夠的理由和強大的獨立思考能力。作者正是要告訴我們,比任何寫作指南都更為重要的是自主深入的思考過程。
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The Sense of Style pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024