The Sense of Style

Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.

出版者:Viking Books

作者:Steven Pinker

页数:368

出版时间:2014-9-30

价格:USD 27.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780670025855

图书标签:写作writing英语语言Writingstevenpinker英文原版语言学

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Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?

In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.

In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.

Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.

读后感

专家都不会说人话。 这是大部分人的印象。 专家们的发言和文章，有太多拗口的术语、奇怪的概念，把我们绕得晕头转向。 甚至有人说他们就是故意的。如果让大家都听明白他们说的是什么，那他们就失掉专家的权威了。 其实，大部分专家并不是有意的。他们只是不知道，自己说的不是...  

草草读一遍，做些笔记，有时间还要重读。 Chapter 2 A Window onto the World The key to good style, far more than obeying any list of commandments, is to have a clear conception of the make-believe world in which you’re pretending to communication. ...  

古典风格的主导隐喻，在于读者的对话中，作者将读者的视线引向世界之中的某物。使写作这件不自然的事变成我们做起来最自然的两件事：说与看。我们和朋友交谈，过程都是轻松自然的。因为和朋友交谈是为了让他们理解我们，你的语言轻松有趣，言之有理，自然朋友会高兴和我们交谈...  

听完，没有看过。 有一些关键性字词。组块化，知识诅咒，功能固着。古典写作法（意识里有读者，解释给他听，上下句上下段上下文联系，用同一视角形成组块，便于记忆）。写作中常见三问题（保护自己用模糊性词语，用强调性词语，僵尸性名词） 人的记忆容量像抽屉，能放最多7个组...  

用户评价

前两章的确很棒，后面就有点太碎了。没有预想的那么能把心理学的东西放进来。

winter break第七本书：虽说每隔两分钟就要查下词典，但这本书给了我很多写作上的绝佳建议。而且Pinker那种又嘲讽但是又很严肃的语气让我边看边哈哈大笑。要找找Pinker的academic article细读才行。

我：读过一本写作书读完发现完全讲的是写作习惯和写作的精神状态，没什么用... 写作老师：我知道有一本还在学校书店里被推荐，讲的是很模糊的东西，对，也有写作习惯什么的，没什么实质的指导，less useful。我：是叫Sense of Style??? 写作老师：对对对！原来你吐槽的也是这本啊！

前两章的确很棒，后面就有点太碎了。没有预想的那么能把心理学的东西放进来。

看了两遍，我找他的文章做了个简单对比，他自己平时就是那么写文章的