Steven Pinker, autore di bestseller come The Language Instinct, mette in campo il suo talento per spiegare grandi idee in The Sense of Style, un'interessante guida alla scrittura per il XXI secolo Qual è il segreto della buona prosa? Scrivere bene ha importanza nell'era della comunicazione istantanea? Dovremmo preoccuparcene? In questo libro divertente e riflessivo sull'arte moderna della scrittura, Steven Pinker ci mostra perché abbiamo tutti bisogno di un senso dello stile. Più che mai, la valuta della nostra vita sociale e culturale è la parola scritta, da Twitter e dagli SMS ai blog, agli e-reader e ai libri tradizionali. Ma la maggior parte delle guide di stile non riesce a preparare le persone alle sfide della scrittura nel XXI secolo, descrivendola come un campo minato di errori gravi piuttosto che come una forma di piacevole padronanza. Non riescono ad affrontare un fatto ineluttabile sul linguaggio: cambia nel tempo, adattato da milioni di scrittori e oratori alle loro esigenze. Confondendo i cambiamenti nel mondo con il declino morale, ogni generazione crede che i ragazzi di oggi stiano degradando la società e portando con sé il linguaggio. Una guida per il nuovo millennio, scrive Steven Pinker, deve essere diversa. Basandosi sulle ultime ricerche in linguistica e scienze cognitive, Steven Pinker sostituisce il dogma riciclato delle precedenti guide di stile con ragione e prove. Questa guida per persone pensanti alla buona scrittura mostra perché lo stile è ancora importante: nel comunicare in modo efficace, nel migliorare la diffusione delle idee, nel guadagnarsi la fiducia di un lettore e, non da ultimo, nell'aggiungere bellezza al mondo. Illuminante, stimolante e allegro, The Sense of Style mostra che il buon stile è parte di ciò che significa essere umani.
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Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive scientist. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won many prizes for his research, teaching, and his eleven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, one of Foreign Policy's 'World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals' and Time's '100 Most Influential People in the World Today'.
What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style.
More than ever before, the currency of our social and cultural lives is the written word, from Twitter and texting to blogs, e-readers and old-fashioned books. But most style guides fail to prepare people for the challenges of writing in the 21st century, portraying it as a minefield of grievous errors rather than a form of pleasurable mastery. They fail to deal with an inescapable fact about language: it changes over time, adapted by millions of writers and speakers to their needs. Confusing changes in the world with moral decline, every generation believes the kids today are degrading society and taking language with it. A guide for the new millennium, writes Steven Pinker, has to be different.
Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker replaces the recycled dogma of previous style guides with reason and evidence. This thinking person's guide to good writing shows why style still matters: in communicating effectively, in enhancing the spread of ideas, in earning a reader's trust and, not least, in adding beauty to the world. Eye-opening, mind-expanding and cheerful, The Sense of Style shows that good style is part of what it means to be human.
What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style.
More than ever before, the currency of our social and cultural lives is the written word, from Twitter and texting to blogs, e-readers and old-fashioned books. But most style guides fail to prepare people for the challenges of writing in the 21st century, portraying it as a minefield of grievous errors rather than a form of pleasurable mastery. They fail to deal with an inescapable fact about language: it changes over time, adapted by millions of writers and speakers to their needs. Confusing changes in the world with moral decline, every generation believes the kids today are degrading society and taking language with it. A guide for the new millennium, writes Steven Pinker, has to be different.
Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker replaces the recycled dogma of previous style guides with reason and evidence. This thinking person's guide to good writing shows why style still matters: in communicating effectively, in enhancing the spread of ideas, in earning a reader's trust and, not least, in adding beauty to the world. Eye-opening, mind-expanding and cheerful, The Sense of Style shows that good style is part of what it means to be human.
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