Educating Eve
1997 book by Geoffrey Sampson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate is a book by Geoffrey Sampson, providing arguments against Noam Chomsky's theory of a human instinct for (first) language acquisition. Sampson explains the original title of the book as a deliberate allusion to Educating Rita (1980), and uses the plot of that play to illustrate his argument. Sampson's book is a response to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct specifically and Chomskyan linguistic nativism broadly.
Author | Geoffrey Sampson |
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Original title | Educating Eve |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Non-fiction (Linguistics) |
Publisher | Continuum International Publishing Group |
Publication date | 1997 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
ISBN | 978-0-304-33908-2 |
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LC Class | P37.5.I55 S26 1997 |
Followed by | The 'Language Instinct' Debate. Revised edition. |
The title, Educating Eve, was dropped after the first edition because the allusion to Educating Rita "was deemed unduly mysterious".[1] The revised edition (2005) contains an additional chapter and "many passages, from a few words up to new chapter-sections, that discuss relevant scientific findings which have emerged since the first edition, or respond to objections made by critics of that edition."[2]