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Most Read This Week Tagged "Language"

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
Intimacies
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Misinterpretation
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Centre
The Colony
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Hèhè
Wordhunter
Toward Eternity
Translating Myself and Others
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Language Books

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Elements of Style
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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Lists

Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerThe Study of Language by George YuleAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
246 books — 221 voters
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstOnce Upon a Lie by Michael R. FrenchWith Love, The Argentina Family by Mirta Ines TruppOlas by José Ramón TorresThey Come in All Colors by Malcolm Hansen
Identity & Society
42 books — 53 voters

BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstIn the Land of Invented Languages by Arika OkrentThe Unfolding of Language by Guy DeutscherThe Mother Tongue by Bill BrysonThrough the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
Books for Language Lovers
201 books — 73 voters
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
476 books — 83 voters

Silent Partners by Eugene LindenPrimatology, Ethics and Trauma by Robert IngersollNim Chimpsky by Elizabeth HessThe Monkey Wars by Deborah BlumNext of Kin by Roger Fouts
Classic Ape Language Studies: Controversies and Ethical Implications (Non-Fiction)
36 books — 1 voter
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, A Dictionary of Buckish... by Francis GroseI Love it When You Talk Retro by Ralph KeyesHow to Commit a Murder by Danny AhearnSmaller Slang Dictionary by Eric PartridgeStraight from the Fridge, Dad by Max Décharné
•One Horse Open Slang
120 books — 5 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Language”

R.F. Kuang
“ English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods. ”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel
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W.H. Auden
“ A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948
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