Russell نوشته: جالب هست این جستار با توجه به اینکه من هم چندیه با خواندن کتاب جناب استیون پینکر (The Stuff of Thought) درباره زبان این مساله زبان و زبانروانشناسی برایم جالبتر شده.به عبارت او زبان پنجره ایست به طبیعت انسان و چگونگی تفکر انسانها را نشان میدهد.از همه جالبتر این قابلیت دیدن موضوعات از زوایای متفاوت و تفاوتهای ظریف در زبان و مخصوصا افعال است.

هر چند در این کتاب درباره Steven Pinker آمده که بیشتر به سرشتین بودن زبان بها میدهد تا کارکرد زبان (+ فرهنگ) در اندیشه.

For some critics, such as Steven Pinker, the fact that our mother
tongue constrains neither our capacity to reason logically nor Our ability
to understand complex ideas is an irredeemable anticlimax. In his
recent book, The Stuff of Thought, Pinker argues that since no one has
ever managed to show that speakers of one language find it impossible,
or even extremely difficult, to reason in a particular way that comes
naturally to the speakers of another language, then any remaining
effects of language on thought are mundane, unsexy, boring, even trivial.
Obviously, what's sexy is a matter of personal taste. But in what follows,
I hope to show that while the actual effects oflanguage on thought
are very different from the wild and woolly claims of the past, they are
far from boring, mundane, or trivial.