中古品:
￥1,000 税込
配送料 ¥275 2月18日 火曜日にお届け
詳細を見る
中古商品: 良い | 詳細
発売元 （株）東亜ブック（１９６６年創業）
コンディション: 中古商品: 良い
コメント: 保管時の汚れ、擦れ、表紙に多少のキズがあります。未読品です。原則当社営業日（土・日、祝祭日を除く平日）午後3時までのご注文は東京都より当日発送致します。品切れの際は速やかにご注文をキャンセルさせて頂きます。
Kindleアプリのロゴ画像

無料のKindleアプリをダウンロードして、スマートフォン、タブレット、またはコンピューターで今すぐKindle本を読むことができます。Kindleデバイスは必要ありません。

ウェブ版Kindleなら、お使いのブラウザですぐにお読みいただけます。

携帯電話のカメラを使用する - 以下のコードをスキャンし、Kindleアプリをダウンロードしてください。

KindleアプリをダウンロードするためのQRコード

著者をフォロー

スティーヴン・ピンカー
フォロー
何か問題が発生しました。後で再度リクエストしてください。

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language ペーパーバック – 2000/1/15

英語版 Steven Pinker (著)
4.4 5つ星のうち4.4 182個の評価
すべての形式と版を表示

How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this original and totally entertaining book written in the same engaging style that illuminated his bestselling classics, The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, Seven Pinker explores the profound mysteries of language.

By picking a deceptively simple phenomenon--regular and irregular verbs--Pinker connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and the humanities: the history of languages; the theories of Noam Chomosky and his critics; the attempts to create language using computer simulations of neural networks; what there is to learn from children's grammatical "mistakes"; the latest techniques in identifying genes and imaging the brain; and major ideas in the history of Western philosophy. He makes sense of all this with the help of a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammer of creative rules. His theory extends beyond language and offers insight in the very nature of the human mind.

商品の詳細の前のスライド
  1. 本の長さ
    368ページ
  2. 言語
    英語
  3. 出版社
    Harper Perennial
  4. 発売日
    2000/1/15
  5. 寸法
    13.49 x 2.11 x 20.32 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0060958405
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0060958404
  8. すべての詳細を表示
商品の詳細の次のスライド

商品の説明

著者について

One of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World Today," Steven Pinker is the author of seven books, including How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate—both Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners of the William James Book Award. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher, and a frequent contributor to Time and the New York Times.

登録情報

  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial; Reprint版 (2000/1/15)
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2000/1/15
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • ペーパーバック ‏ : ‎ 368ページ
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060958405
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060958404
  • 寸法 ‏ : ‎ 13.49 x 2.11 x 20.32 cm
  • カスタマーレビュー:
    4.4 5つ星のうち4.4 182個の評価

著者について

著者をフォローして、新作のアップデートや改善されたおすすめを入手してください。
スティーヴン・ピンカー

スティーヴン・ピンカー

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

著者の本をもっと見つけたり、似たような著者を調べたり、おすすめの本を読んだりできます。

カスタマーレビュー

星5つ中4.4つ
182グローバルレーティング

この商品をレビュー

他のお客様にも意見を伝えましょう
カスタマーレビューを書く

上位レビュー、対象国： 日本

  • shorebird
    5つ星のうち5.0 不規則動詞はこんなに面白い．
    2003年8月12日に日本でレビュー済み
    Amazonで購入
    スティーブンピンカーの快作，今回は言語学者の領分に戻って規則動詞と不規則動詞の話．ミクロの面白い話がいろいろつながって人間の進化的な理解につながっている．しかしこの本の真骨頂は規則不規則のオタク話だろう，脱帽のおもしろさ．タコの複数形の話は笑える．
    7人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
    役に立った
     レポート
  • Cool124
    5つ星のうち4.0 かなり楽しめます
    2014年8月3日に日本でレビュー済み
    多少時間はかかりますが面白い本です。なるほどと思うことがてんこ盛り。ずっと思っていたgo went gone 素朴な疑問が解けます。
    1人のお客様がこれが役に立ったと考えています
    役に立った
     レポート
  • Wesley Ludick-Williams
    5つ星のうち5.0 Excellent quality and service
    2022年7月11日に日本でレビュー済み
    Amazonで購入
    The book was such a good price, looks like new, and arrived the next day. Super impressed.
    役に立った
     レポート

他の国からのトップレビュー

すべてのレビューを日本語に翻訳
  • Sidney Shaw
    5つ星のうち5.0 Perfect.
    2020年6月28日にメキシコでレビュー済み
    Amazonで購入
    Came in without printing mistakes and exactly as advertised.
    レポート
  • Marcus
    5つ星のうち5.0 Fun with irregular verbs (but caveats on the Kindle)
    2018年11月1日に英国でレビュー済み
    Amazonで購入
    The book:

    Most of Pinker's books are pop-non-fiction. This is different. Pinker's day job is investigating regular and irregular verbs and nouns. Why is the plural of 'housewife' housewives, but the plural of 'lowlife' is lowlifes? Why does 'rats infested' sound wrong but 'mice infested' is OK? Sounds specialised, but from the deepest possible analysis of this tiny facet of grammar, Steven Pinker has uncovered facts about our brains and minds where hordes of introspecting philosophers have failed.

    Don't expect to skim read this book and enjoy it, but if you enter into its arguments it will reward you.

    The Kindle version:

    The text was auto-generated by an OCR assisted by a spell-checker. It did a pretty good job of the prose sections, but this book has numerous examples of regular endings on irregular words and vice versa. The spell checker has tipped these into nearby but unrelated words, resulting in nonsense. It can be quite a challenge to work out what Pinker actually wrote. Moreover, every instance of "page XXX" has been replaced with a hyperlink to that page. Makes sense when it is a link, but when it is just an example from someone else's book, it is bizarre.

    If you know these issues and are prepared to put in a bit of mental effort, the Kindle version is cheaper and more convenient. But be aware before you buy.
    レポート
  • John M. Ford
    5つ星のうち5.0 The Fruit Flies of Language
    2010年8月9日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
    Amazonで購入
    Psychologist, linguist, and well-known author Steven Pinker illustrates the processes of human language through an extended discussion of regular and irregular verbs. He skillfully uses our grade-school struggles with the rules and exceptions of English vocabulary to explore the larger realm of human language competence. "Like fruit flies, regular and irregular verbs are small and easy to breed, and they contain, in easily visible form, the machinery that powers larger phenomena in all their glorious complexity."

    Pinker's book explores in great detail the two different systems of the brain that produce language. One is regular and rule-like and produces patterns that range from the regular forms of some verbs to the grammatical and organizational regularities of larger chunks of language. The other is idiosyncratic and irregular and stores pieces of our linguistic competence that frustrate linguists and second-graders alike. Our working language is shaped by the interplay between these systems. They both leave their traces in the historical changes in language, similarities between different languages, the creative mistakes children and adults make while learning language, and in the way we invent and reinvent new words.

    This book is recommended to anyone who wants to understand how our mind enables us to use language. Don't worry about being trapped into a narrow dissection of verbs--the book simply uses them as an increasingly-familiar theme to explore larger language issues. And don't shrink from an imagined tangle of technical terminology. Pinker's use of language is as deft as his grasp of it. His book is an enjoyable, as well as an informative read.
    レポート
  • RR Waller
    5つ星のうち5.0 Pinker's Words and Rules
    2011年8月17日に英国でレビュー済み
    Amazonで購入
    Stephen Pinker is one of the clearest and interesting modern writers on language; he is also an excellent speaker who, because of his great depth of knowledge of his own subject and his obvious enthusiasm for it, is able to communicate that to his listeners. As a great user of language himself, he is an excellent advocate for its clearer use.
    He explains the complexities of Chomsky's linguistic ideas with its deep structures and transformational grammar in ways which make them more understandable to the "everyday" reader before explaining more modern approaches based in Chomsky's ideas.
    In this more scholarly and somewhat drier text (after the "Language Instinct"), he deals with words and rules, the content and method, in ways which make this a fascinating insight into how humans developed and use language.
    レポート
  • Neal J. King
    5つ星のうち5.0 ...but sometimes more than I wanted to know about irregular verbs...
    2006年2月3日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
    Amazonで購入
    This is a great book for learning how someone can take a theory about language and look for support or contradiction in experiments with people: children just learning the language, people with brain damage, and even people with inherited language difficulties.

    The basic idea, that the conjugation of regular verbs is "calculated" by rule, whereas the conjugation of irregular verbs must be memorized, is not hard to grasp. Pinker goes on to show how this idea can be tested: how connectionist (neural-network) models for language learning give different predictions; how different kinds of mistakes can test different aspects of the theory; and so on. He gives an explanation of why English and German, which are closely related languages, have such a different percentage of irregular verbs. (Hint: It has to do with the Battle of Hastings.)

    Sometimes I felt that I was being overwhelmed in the details of irregular verbs. However, progress is often made in science by paying attention to the details. This book elevates the level of discussion on the nature of "proper" vs. "improper" verb formation beyond mere opinion and prejudice, to the level of scientific discussion. For an amateur like myself, it's not necessary to remember the intricacies of the argument; but it's nice to see that someone has gone through it.

    Kudos to Pinker for demonstrating that the use of language can really be an arena for scientific research.
    レポート