The Language Myth is written for a general audience—not specifically professional linguists—and takes the form of an evidence-based rebuttal of aspects of the world-view developed in the popular, best ...

The show talks with evolutionary psychologist and author Steven Pinker about his new book, "The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window into Human Nature." Pinker is a professor of psychology at ...

Number of words in Funk & Wagnall's New Unabridged Dictionary: 450,000.Number of words in vocabulary of average high school graduate: 60,000. Number of distinct words in Shakespeare's collected works: ...