Steven Pinker: The Psycholinguist’s Sense of Style
An excerpt from the prologue of Steven Pinker’s most recent work, The Sense of Style, in which he explains what a psycholinguist can bring to the writing guide. Pinker will join PEN Canada, Oct 22.
PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
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