# Steven Pinker on language and thought

In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2007
- Runtime: 17 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/StevenPinker_2005G)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/StevenPinker_2005G?play=1)