Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Glyph
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
The Language of Liars
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Eden
Hèhè
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Fifty Sounds
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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
Metaphors We Live By
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Course in General Linguistics
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Clarice Lispector
Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded ...more
Clarice Lispector

Mark Twain
I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
Mark Twain

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