Steven pinkers the sense of style the thinking persons guide to writing in the 21st century might be regarded as an update of fowler eschewing pedantry convoluted or pompous sentence construction cliche and inflexible grammatical rules pinker is every bit as witty as fowler and writes in a similarly vigorous direct and idiosyncratic manner his book is accordingly much less boring than one might expect of a style manual indeed it is often laugh out loud funny pinker knows . The sense of style the thinking persons guide to writing in the 21st century pinker steven isbn 0884299565545 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The sense of style the thinking persons guide to writing in the 21st century pinker steven isbn 9780241957714 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon the sense of style the thinking persons guide to writing in the 21st century amazonde pinker steven fremdsprachige bucher. The sense of style the thinking persons guide to writing in the 21st century is a 2014 english style guide written by cognitive scientist linguist and popular science author steven pinker building upon earlier guides such as strunk whites the elements of style and fowlers a dictionary of modern english usage it applies science to the process of writing and explains its prescriptions by citing studies in related fields eg grammatical phenomena mental dynamics . In this entertaining and eminently practical book the cognitive scientist dictionary consultant and new york times bestselling author steven pinker rethinks the usage guide for the twenty first century using examples of great and gruesome modern prose while avoiding the scolding tone and spartan tastes of the classic manuals he shows how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right the sense of style is for