Language and Linguistics


The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Metaphors We Live By
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It