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Harvard’s Steven Pinker is the world’s most prominent and prolific psychologist. His multi-faceted work draws on visual cognition, evolutionary science, developmental psychology and computational theory of mind to explain the origin and function of language.

In this RSA Animate, Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings.

The video is structured to look at different tools we use to manage information flow, from naming to swearing and politeness to metaphor and euphemism.

From Shakespeare to pop songs, Pinker uses a potent blend of digestible examples and empirical evidence to distill the fundamental fascination of language: What we mean when we say.

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