Language as a Window into Human Nature

This is an RSA Animate adaptation of linguist Steven Pinker's ideas about the power of language: Language as a Window into Human Nature. You can find out more about Steven Pinker's work at Wikipedia.

This is an RSA animation video about how language operates on multiple levels: there is the communication of information, but there are also all kinds of social negotiations going on. As a writer, you are creating a language relationship with your reader, and this video can help you realize some of the complexities of that relationship.