By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their mental lives. With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning. This fact can be quite mystifying, yet a science of linguistic meaning-semantics-has emerged at ...(展开全部)

Autism is a complex and incurable constellation of bizarre behaviors, impaired cognition, limited language, and most distressingly, a lack of responsiveness to other people, and it has been the center of impassioned debates for decades. What is it? What causes it? How can it be treated? In "The Science and Fiction of Autism," one of the country's leading experts in behavioral...(展开全部)

劳拉·施赖布曼（LauraSchreibman）博士是美国加州大学—圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）心理学系杰出教授（DistinguishedProfessor），注册心理学家。是自闭症研究领域中具有世界水平的领军人物，也是应用行为分析方面最受尊敬的研究者之一。劳拉教授是加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）自闭症干预研究项目负责人，关键行为训练（PRT）的创始人之一。曾任美国加州大学—圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）副校长，心理学系主任，是十九家世界著名心理学与特殊教育杂志的编委，自1983年以来，一直就职于加州大学—圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）心理学系。发表论文140多篇，出版专著4部。

劳拉·施赖布曼（LauraSchreibman）博士是美国加州大学—圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）心理学系杰出教授（DistinguishedProfessor），注册心理学家。是自闭症研究领域中具有世界水平的领军人物，也是应用行为分析方面最受尊敬的研究者之一。劳拉教授是加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）自闭症干预研究项目负责人，关键行为训练（PRT）的创始人之一。曾任美国加州大学—圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）副校长，心理学系主任，是十九家世界著名心理学与特殊教育杂志的编委，自1983年以来，一直就职于加州大学—圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）心理学系。发表论文140多篇，出版专著4部。

Autism is a complex and incurable constellation of bizarre behaviors, impaired cognition, limited language, and most distressingly, a lack of responsiveness to other people, and it has been the center of impassioned debates for decades. What is it? What causes it? How can it be treated? In "The Science and Fiction of Autism," one of the country's leading experts in behavioral...(展开全部)

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)

Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese...Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - "Independent". 'A marvelously readable book...illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, its acquisition by children, its gramma...(展开全部)

Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese...Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - "Independent". 'A marvelously readable book...illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, its acquisition by children, its gramma...(展开全部)