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1/7 Milt Rosenberg Interviews Steven Pinknerby Rob Blatt
This week, Milt interviews Steven Pinkner about Steven's new book "The Stuff of Thought", D.L. Austin's assertion that double positives do not make a negative yet double negatives make a positive, the use of double intensifiers, both sexual and non-sexual innuendo, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the content of human nature in Pinkner's works, political rhetoric and Bill Clinton's use of the word "is", vocabularistic differentiation, taboo words and baby names. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, and most recently, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.
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