A review by tyndareos
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

1.0

The Book seems to be a highly overrated, there are so many repetitions in this book it could be half its size containing the same amount of information, it's full of bias and logical fallacies. While Pinker presents a lot of concepts on the topic of language and its origins, his theories are speculative, and most of his arguments are not backed by scientific evidence. His views on language, its origins and the way it works are debated and not the case as he presents them, which can be confusion and misunderstanding. The book also lacks on perspective of language, the claims he made does not represent of all the different languages and cultures around the world. It's written in an unnecessarily complex and unstructured style, which makes it to a jumbled mess. I wouldn't recommend the book to anyone looking for a clear understanding of the topic, and would point to Chomsky instead.