The Ling Space | Interview with Steven Pinker @thelingspace | Uploaded 8 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
We're really excited to have gotten to interview Steven Pinker recently! Dr. Pinker is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard, and a best-selling author whose books, including The Language Instinct, the Stuff of Thought, and the Sense of Style, help to broaden knowledge about linguistics, language, and cognitive psychology.
We got to ask him about a lot of great topics, including:
- the role of social media in promoting science
- the unifying themes under all of his work
- the ongoing resistance to the idea that language is innate
- the role of emoticons and emoji in discourse
- the videos he watches on YouTube
- three questions from our followers on machine learning, advice for starting out in research, and social media's influence on language
And much more! We even have an extra video this week, posted Thursday, that has a book recommendation and news about Dr. Pinker's next book.
Hope you all enjoy it!
Some related videos:
How will language change in the future?: youtu.be/5hibYoYwGko
How do computers understand our speech?: youtu.be/FI9IJteS-5Y
How do we interpret sentences?: youtu.be/2A-FDN7-gyo
Find us on all the social media worlds:
Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com
Twitter: twitter.com/TheLingSpace
Facebook: facebook.com/thelingspace
And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com !
You can also find our store at the website, http://www.thelingspace.com/store
We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally.
Sources:
Steven Pinker's bookshelf ad: youtube.com/watch?v=tV-wgmLi1rE
Pinker with Kanye West: twitter.com/sapinker/status/656344464001118208
Books mentioned:
The Language Instinct: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061336461
The Blank Slate: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780142003343
The Stuff of Thought: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143114246
The Sense of Style: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780670025855
The Better Angels of Our Nature: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143122012
Clear and Simple as the Truth: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780691147437
Style: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780857191878
Looking forward to next week!
We're really excited to have gotten to interview Steven Pinker recently! Dr. Pinker is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard, and a best-selling author whose books, including The Language Instinct, the Stuff of Thought, and the Sense of Style, help to broaden knowledge about linguistics, language, and cognitive psychology.
We got to ask him about a lot of great topics, including:
- the role of social media in promoting science
- the unifying themes under all of his work
- the ongoing resistance to the idea that language is innate
- the role of emoticons and emoji in discourse
- the videos he watches on YouTube
- three questions from our followers on machine learning, advice for starting out in research, and social media's influence on language
And much more! We even have an extra video this week, posted Thursday, that has a book recommendation and news about Dr. Pinker's next book.
Hope you all enjoy it!
Some related videos:
How will language change in the future?: youtu.be/5hibYoYwGko
How do computers understand our speech?: youtu.be/FI9IJteS-5Y
How do we interpret sentences?: youtu.be/2A-FDN7-gyo
Find us on all the social media worlds:
Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com
Twitter: twitter.com/TheLingSpace
Facebook: facebook.com/thelingspace
And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com !
You can also find our store at the website, http://www.thelingspace.com/store
We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally.
Sources:
Steven Pinker's bookshelf ad: youtube.com/watch?v=tV-wgmLi1rE
Pinker with Kanye West: twitter.com/sapinker/status/656344464001118208
Books mentioned:
The Language Instinct: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061336461
The Blank Slate: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780142003343
The Stuff of Thought: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143114246
The Sense of Style: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780670025855
The Better Angels of Our Nature: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143122012
Clear and Simple as the Truth: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780691147437
Style: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780857191878
Looking forward to next week!
