Language and Linguistics


The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
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
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
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
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language