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Most Read This Week Tagged "Linguistics"

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
The Language of Liars
Glyph
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Eden
The Mulai
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
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Linguistics Books

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
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Lists

Ethereal by Phillip BainbridgeSeven Beyond by Stella AtriumThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusPhilosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenThe Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun Tzu
books with ‘philosophy’ in title
255 books — 29 voters
Meditations by Marcus AureliusThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherLetters from a Stoic by SenecaThe Ra Contact by Donald Tully ElkinsTaoTuning by Adrian Emery
Knowledge
245 books — 257 voters

Forensic Hypnosis by Whitney S. HibbardThe weather matrix and human behavior by Michael A. PersingerBecoming a Private Investigator by Howie KahnBrain Tests by Edmund ShaftesburyThe Red Market by Scott Carney
Paraforensic
145 books — 3 voters
Learning Irish by Mícheál Ó SiadhailBasic Irish by Nancy StensonIntermediate Irish by Nancy StensonIrish Grammar You Really Need to Know by Éamonn Ó DónaillBuntus Cainte by Tomas O Domhnallain
Leabhair Gramadai Gaelige
38 books — 11 voters

English Idioms Vocabulary 2022 Complete Edition by Premier English Learning Pu...English C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency Smart Vocabulary by Premier English Learning Pu...Fluent Forever by Gabriel WynerFluent in 3 Months by Benny LewisThe Glamour of Grammar by Roy Peter Clark
Bücher zum Englisch Lernen
129 books — 3 voters
The Celts by John CollisThe Celtic World by Jennifer PaxtonSilent Cries by Bill StewartThe Conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius CaesarThe History of Rome, Books 1-5 by Livy
The Celtic World Suggested Reading
82 books — 3 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Linguistics”

Anthony Burgess
“ Regional dialects have to become national tongues before they can attain lasting glory. As with America, as with Australia. Scottish is different because Scotland considers itself to be a nation. Its language deserves a chapter to itself. ”
― Anthony Burgess
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Mark Twain
“ There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome. ”
― Mark Twain, The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache
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Talking Right, by Geoffrey Nunberg (Authors@Google)
Talking Right, by Geoffrey Nunberg (Authors@Google)
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The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History by Anton Sammut
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