書名：The Sense of Style 寫作風格的意識 
難度：Lexile藍思閱讀指數1260L
作者：Steven Pinker史蒂芬·平剋
齣版社名稱：Penguin Books
齣版時間：2015
語種： 英文
ISBN：9780143127796
商品尺寸：13.4 x 2 x 20.2 cm
包裝：平裝
頁數：368

紐時作傢、Language Instinct《語言本能》作者
享譽國際的認知科學 ╳ 心理語言學傢
為21世紀知識分子所寫的英語寫作指南
良好的寫作並非本能，對人類來說，這甚至是項艱難的任務；然而，這不代錶我們無法透過後天努力掌握這項技藝，更不代錶學習過程必然枯燥而充滿教條；事實上，這可以是一場迷人的心智旅程。
The Sense of Style《寫作風格的意識》是為瞭有英文寫作的需求，並期望提升此項能力的人們而撰。此外，如果對文學有興趣，或希望瞭解心智科學如何幫助人們理解語言的運作，也能從本書獲得啓發。
搭配豐富的正反實例，作者告訴我們：
·透過大量閱讀提升品味和語感
·讓讀者與文章主題産生清楚鏈接
·去除知識構成的理解障礙
·避免不恰當的文章結構誤導讀者
·確保文章具一緻性與邏輯性
·掌握正確語法
掌握以上數點，並經過假以時日的練習，就能寫齣論述清晰而又兼具風格的英語好文章。
推薦理由：
1. 世界知名語言學傢、TED演講人、《語言本能》作者史蒂芬·平剋新著作；
2. 引用大量優美的文章，說明如何能使文章好看且易於閱讀；
3. 筆法及引用的例子特殊，市場相對少見；
4. 旁徵博引，豐富的語言學、科學與心智科學知識，提供讀者豐富多元的閱讀厚度。
名傢推薦：
“本書優雅而清晰地一擊即中，推翻瞭所謂英語快爛得要丟去喂狗瞭的說法。平剋為新世紀寫瞭像史壯剋和懷特（Strunk and White）那樣的經典之作，同時勸導人們拋棄沒有根據的無稽之談，譬如指稱那個廣告老口號該說成：‘Winston tastes good as a cigarette should.’（雲絲頓好味道，香煙就該這麼好。）” ——約翰·麥剋霍特（John McWhorter）（《偉哉！我們的雜種語言》（Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue）和《巴彆塔的力量》（The Power of Babel）的作者）
“乾得好！隻有平剋纔能寫齣這本瞭不起的好書，也謝天謝地他真把它寫瞭齣來。他寫道：“好文章能把我們對世界的觀感翻轉過來。”《寫作風格的意識》一書也能把你對好文章的想法翻轉過來。書中每一頁都散發著平剋的好奇之心和欣喜之情；而當他說，風格可以令世界變得更美好，我們都信以為真。” ——帕特裏剋·歐康納（Patricia T. O’Conner）（《我何其不幸》（Woe Is I）的作者，並與史都華·凱勒曼（Stewart Kellerman）閤著《似是而非的起源》（Origins of the Specious）
“能有像他那樣活潑而澄明的心智，把認知科學的意念帶給普羅大眾，真是一樁好事。” ——德格拉斯·霍夫斯達德（Douglas Hofstadter《洛杉磯時報》）

“Charming and erudite,” from the author of the forthcoming Enlightenment Now (February 2018), “The wit and insight and clarity he brings… is what makes this book such a gem.” —Time.com
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing—and why should we care? From the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and the forthcoming Enlightenment Now
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 writers of all kinds, and for readers who are interested in letters and literature and are curious about the ways in which the sciences of mind can illuminate how language works at its best.
Review
Praise forThe Sense of Style
“[The Sense of Style] is more contemporary and comprehensive than ‘The Elements of Style,’ illustrated with comic strips and cartoons and lots of examples of comically bad writing. [Pinker’s] voice is calm, reasonable, benign, and you can easily see why he’s one of Harvard’s most popular lecturers.”—The New York Times
“Pinker’s linguistical learning… is considerable. His knowledge of grammar is extensive and runs deep. He also takes a scarcely hidden delight in exploding tradition. He describes his own temperament as ‘both logical and rebellious.’ Few things give him more pleasure than popping the buttons off what he takes to be stuffed shirts.”—The Wall Street Journal
“[W]hileThe Sense of Style is very much a practical guide to clear and compelling writing, it’s also far more…. In the end, Pinker’s formula for good writing is pretty basic: write clearly, try to follow the rules most of the time—but only the when they make sense. It’s neither rocket science nor brain surgery. But the wit and insight and clarity he brings to that simple formula is what makes this book such a gem.”—Time.com
“Erudite and witty… With its wealth of helpful information and its accessible approach,The Sense of Style is a worthy addition to even the most overburdened shelf of style manuals.”—Shelf Awareness

紐時作傢、《語言本能》作者
享譽國際的認知科學 ╳ 心理語言學傢
結閤科學傢的洞見及語法的新發展
傳授你寫好文章的藝術
為什麼那麼多文章如此糟糕，該怎樣改善？
英語正因為短訊和社交媒體而變壞嗎？
的孩子還會注重良好的寫作嗎？
那我們任何人為什麼還要注重它？
在這本有趣而富啓迪意義的書裏，認知科學傢、語言學傢暨書作者史蒂芬·平剋重新構思瞭一部二十一世紀的語文用法指南。他沒有慨嘆語言的墮落，沒有在一些惱人的語言問題上吹毛求疵，也沒有把一個世紀前語文指南中的可疑規則照錄如儀，取而代之，他把語言和心智科學的洞見應用到富挑戰性的任務上：如何打造清晰、具一緻性而彆具風格的文章。 
他說，不要把問題歸咎於網路或的小孩；良好寫作從來是艱難的任務。他從品味彆人的好文章起步。他要讓想象力發揮作用：營造一種幻覺，彷佛把讀者的目光引導到世間的事物。作者必須剋服知識的詛咒——這種障礙令我們難以想象彆人對我們所認知的如何毫無概念。熟練的作者必須能敏銳覺察句法如何把糾結不清的意念轉化為直綫式句子。他們還必須把文章編織成具一緻性的整體，流暢地一句一句接續下去。還有，他們要懂得拿捏正確的語文用法，把有助文章變得清晰和優雅的規則跟迷思和迷信區彆開來。 
書中從現代文章中擷取瞭大量正麵和反麵例子，避免瞭古典風格手冊的責備語氣和武斷口吻，揭示寫作藝術是掌握一種本領的愉悅經驗，也是令人著迷的智性活動。《寫作風格的意識》適閤各種各樣的作者，它的讀者對象，則包括對文藝或文學有興趣，而希望瞭解心智科學如何能發揮妙用讓我們瞥見語言怎樣運作。
What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style.
More than ever before, the currency of our social and cultural lives is the written word, from Twitter and texting to blogs, e-readers and old-fashioned books. But most style guides fail to prepare people for the challenges of writing in the 21st century, portraying it as a minefield of grievous errors rather than a form of pleasurable mastery. They fail to deal with an inescapable fact about language: it changes over time, adapted by millions of writers and speakers to th 華研原版 寫作風格的意識 英文原版 The Sense of Style 英語寫作指南 史 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書