Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
Battle of the Linguist Mages
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Speaking in Tongues
Żeńska końcówka języka
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From!
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 Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
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
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 Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstMan Made Language by Dale SpenderLanguage and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach LakoffPronoun Envy by Anna LiviaLanguage and Gender by Penelope Eckert
Feminist linguistics
39 books — 17 voters
The Power of Babel by Michel PierssensGrossman's Glossary of Every Humorous Word in the English Lan... by Richard GrossmanStrange Linguistics by Mark NewbrookJamaica Talk by Frederic Gomes CassidyMissing the Meaning? by David    Howard
•Tongue Hatches
100 books — 3 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWatership Down by Richard  AdamsEmbassytown by China MiévilleThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine AddisonStrung by Roske
Well-integrated Conlangs
12 books — 8 voters
Forensic Linguistics by John OlssonWordcrime by John OlssonThe Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics by Malcolm CoulthardAn Introduction to Forensic Linguistics by Malcolm CoulthardForensic Linguistics by John Olsson
Forensic Linguistics (Non-Fiction)
14 books — 1 voter


In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in certain recurrent and yet not fully predictable patterns. We interpret such experiences as and through symbolic means, including linguistic expressions. That’s what it means to be human.
Duranti a Alessandro, Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader

Charles Darwin
It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect pedigree of mankind, a genealogical arrangement of the races of man would afford the best classification of the various languages now spoken throughout the world; and if all extinct languages, and all intermediate and slowly changing dialects, were to be included, such an arrangement would be the only possible one. Yet it might be that some ancient languages had altered ver ...more
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