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How We Speak Reveals What We Think, with Steven Pinker. Transcript My name is Steve Pinker, and I’m Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. And today I’m going to speak to you about language.  I’m actually not a linguist, but a cognitive scientist. I’m not so much interested as language as an object in its own right, but as a window to the human mind. Language is one of the fundamental topics in the human sciences. Language comes so naturally to us that we’re apt to forget what a strange and miraculous gift it is. Now, the ideas we are going to share are about this talent, language, but with a slightly different sequence of hisses and squeaks, I could cause you to be thinking thoughts about a vast array of topics, anything from the latest developments in your favorite reality show to theories of the origin of the universe. The Science of Language Not surprisingly, language is central to human life.

Components of Linguistics What is Language?  A second thing not to confuse language with is proper grammar. Evidence Language is Not Thought. Start. Military Intelligence, Intelligence Studies, Intelligence Operations, National Intelligence, Intelligence Analysis, Gateway to Intelligence, Core C - Cross-Cultural Perspectives :: Fairleigh Dickinson University. Cultural Perspectives: Unifying Features Of Humans.

Countless divisions threaten to separate humans from one another based on superficial differences. These include race, sex, sexual orientation, location, religion, and other factors which are either an inevitable product of biology or a culturally constructed trait. Problems arise all over the world because people fail to recognize that humanity is united by more things than those which threaten to divide us. In short, Laura Bohannon's belief that "Human beings are pretty much the same the whole world over" is basically true. Biological and evolutionary adaptations make humans very similar, despite thousands of miles in between them and the distribution of human populations in environments all over the world. Marjorie Shostak points out that all people experience the same range of human emotions and have the same emotional needs as others.

Human growth from the neonatal stage to adulthood has the same basic characteristics of learning and development across cultures. Web Sites for Research in Global Issues.