寫作風格的意識

史迪芬.平克(Steven Pinker)

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商周出版

出版时间

2016-03-07

ISBN

9789869288002

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★★★★★
书籍介绍
平克把写作当成一门可被「逆向工程」的本领,而非天赋或语感。全书的核心主张锋利而反直觉:好文字的本质是「让读者看见他尚未注意到的东西」——写作者先看清世界,再用清晰简单的句子引导读者自行看见。这一「古典风格」的隐喻,被他当作矫正学术腔、官腔、企业腔的解毒良药。书中大量正反例证,尤其对学术写作「故作抽象、滥用术语」的犀利批评,令许多读者直呼「咣咣锤脸」,却也因此获益。值得注意的是,它虽以英语为例,读者却普遍反映对中文写作同样适用。它适合愿意反复修改、追求清晰与美感的写作者,也适合想理解语言如何运作的心智科学爱好者。
作者简介
史迪芬.平克 Steven Pinker 屢屢獲獎的認知科學家和公共知識分子。 他是《美國傳統英語詞典》(American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language)用法小組主席,也是《語言本能》(The Language Instinct)、《詞與規則》(Words and Rules)和《思維素材》(The Stuff of Thought)等書備受讚譽的作者。他是哈佛大學心理學系約翰斯東家族(Johnstone Family)講座教授,現居波士頓和麻州特魯羅市(Truro)。 平克曾獲獎項包括: 皇家科學院亨利‧戴爾獎(Henry Dale Prize, Royal Institution, 2004) 華特‧凱斯勒書籍獎(Walter P. Kistler Book Award , 2005) 美國人道主義協會年度人道主義獎(Humanist of the Year award, issued by the AHA, 2006) 認知神經科學學會喬治‧米勒獎(George Miller Prize, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2010) 理查‧道金斯獎(Richard Dawkins Award, 2013) 譯者 江先聲 美國威斯康辛大學(University of Wisconsin-Madison)哲學博士,在香港和加拿大的出版界及媒體任職逾二十年,曾編寫英中對照哲學讀本,以及翻譯劇本撰作大師約翰.特魯比(John Truby)等的重要著作。
AI导读
核心看点
  • 以认知科学解析写作,破除语言堕落迷思
  • 克服知识诅咒,建立读者视角的古典风格
  • 区分语法规则与迷信,追求清晰优雅表达
读者共识
  • 平克著作必属神作,兼具智性与实用性
  • 提供科学依据,颠覆传统写作刻板印象
  • 虽侧重英文,但底层逻辑对中文写作极有助益
精彩摘录
  • "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghos"
  • "The guiding metaphor of classic style is seeing the world. The writer can see something that the reader has not yet noticed, and he orients the reader’s gaze so that she can see it for herself. The purpose of writing is presentation, and its motive is disinterested truth. It succeeds when it aligns "
  • "The metaphor of conversation implies that the reader is cooperative. The writer can count on her to read between the lines, catch his drift, and connect the dots, without his having to spell out every step in his train of thought."
  • "The graybeard sensibilities of the style mavens come not just from an under appreciation of the fact of language change but from a lack of reflection on their own psychology. As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline."
  • "The abstruseness of the contest winners' writing is deceptive.Most academics can effortlessly dispense this kind of sludge."
  • "As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days. And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it:"
  • "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché (“Since the dawn of time”), not with a banality (“Recently, scholars have been increasingly concerned with the question of…”), but with a contentful observation that provokes curiosity."
  • "A writer, like a cinematographer, manipulates the viewer’s perspective on an ongoing story, with the verbal equivalent of camera angles and quick cuts."
目录
序言
風格,起碼能為世界增添美麗。對一個有文化修養的讀者來說,一個利落的句子、一個扣人心弦的隱喻、一句幽默的悄悄話,以及一番優雅的措辭,是人生最大樂事之一。我們在第一章會看到,為掌握良好寫作的實用目的而付出的努力,正是要從良好寫作的這種徹頭徹尾非實用的美德起步。
Chapter 1
良好寫作
逆向工程:好文章是培養「作家耳感」的關鍵

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1 2 3 5读了两遍,感觉就是咣咣锤脸
良心之作。写博文的时候会参考里面的原则
最好读原版...
如何让写的文字更有画面感,去掉多余的词语。我发现我读了这本书,很多时候写东西,也有很多冗余的词汇。写完之后不愿修改,或者没有时间修改。算了,发出去吧。
字字珠玑,搭配例文,让我收获颇多。每个想讲好话,发好言的人都可以看一看。
本來想長評+舉例,忍住了,再寫下去都可以變成課程論文了...... 語言學科普界男神,他也是目前我唯一推薦的語言學科普作者,《寫作風格的意識》涉及到很多語言學的概念,站在英語學習、使用的立場中,運用語言學的概念去分析一些語言問題,裡面提到很多我國高中學英語時的疑問,然後再從語言學的角度去分析這些問題的成因以及人們會接受這些錯誤的理由,很棒!有說服力!不愧是平克!(如果要看台灣版類似的案例性語言學科普,可以閱讀《語言癌不癌》,書名感覺很尷尬,但是內容很豐富!) 非常建議需要用英語寫作或者是正在寫論文的人閱讀,裡面提到的很多寫作盲點以及改善方法真的能讓文章好看不少(應該不是只有我覺得某些學術文章讀起來讓人難以接近吧?隨便看幾行,驚覺對方可以把簡單的概念變得超級複雜的時候,我莫名其妙就跪下了)
gmat备考读的..就很有用
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