What our language habits reveal

Name: What our language habits reveal
Uploaded: 2007-09-09T14:56:00Z
Duration: 17 min 15 s
Description: In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought , Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.

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Steven Pinker |

TEDGlobal 2005

• July 2005

In an exclusive preview of his book <i>The Stuff of Thought</i>, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.