Podcast: Sense of style: How to communicate effectively - with experimental psychologist Steven Pinker

Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker uses reason and evidence to tell us how to communicate effectively in this talk hosted by Melvyn Bragg.

Listen time: 1:24:11
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Style guides set out strict rules for writing well, but how much of that grammar policing is just dogma, and how much is helpful for communication? Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist and one of the world’s foremost writers on language, mind, and human nature. 

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