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.
发表于2025-04-16
The Sense of Style 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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...
评分 评分草草读一遍,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. ...
评分 评分财新杂志的主编王烁说:“我用中文写作,但我用英文学习写作。” 是的,中文作家喜欢两件事:1,凭天赋和感觉:“文章本天成,妙手偶得之”;2,凭苦功夫:“读书破万卷,下笔如有神”。有天赋的人那么少,读破万卷书的人更加稀缺,可是每个人都要写作,应该怎么办?这个时候,...
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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.
由语言学家和认知心理学家写的(英文)style guide,感觉比较适合理性派思维的人阅读。并不是无端列举一大堆写作规则和建议,而是有组织地讲解行文、段落和句子的结构,最重要的是所有分析都有从语言、逻辑、心理学等方面的道理可循。特别是书前半部分感觉可以抽空再仔细读一下做一些笔记,后面部分关于一些具体用词、标点之类的就有点琐碎了。原本是为了改善自己的 academic writing skill 来读的,自己觉得收获不少,但是真正 improve 还是得需要多多练习写作吧。
评分前两章的确很棒,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。
评分Pinker's curse of knowledge.
评分我: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!
评分看了两遍,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
The Sense of Style 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书