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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,796 ratings — published 1994
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,894 ratings — published 2014
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,346 ratings — published 2001
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 553,850 ratings — published 2022
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,402 ratings — published 2018
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,437 ratings — published 2021
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,504 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,101 ratings — published 2015
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,035 ratings — published 2011
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,018 ratings — published 2009
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,598 ratings — published 2017
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,150 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,836 ratings — published 1916
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,835 ratings — published 2014
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 522 ratings — published 2002
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,350 ratings — published 2006
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,171 ratings — published 1990
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,729 ratings — published 2010
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,293 ratings — published 2008
Come dire: Galateo della comunicazione (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.37 — 70 ratings — published 2011
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,229 ratings — published 2004
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,860 ratings — published 2019
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 370 ratings — published 1956
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,356 ratings — published 2013
Linguistics: A Complete Introduction (Ty: Complete Courses)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 147 ratings — published 2014
History in English Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 353 ratings — published 1926
The Liar's Dictionary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.35 — 11,054 ratings — published 2020
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.74 — 16,269 ratings — published 2015
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,053 ratings — published 2003
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,610 ratings — published 2011
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,529 ratings — published 2008
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,907 ratings — published 2019
Genes, Peoples, and Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 810 ratings — published 1996
The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.89 — 463 ratings — published 2010
Experiences in translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,304 ratings — published 2003
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.89 — 813 ratings — published 2011
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,136 ratings — published 1996
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,195 ratings — published 2005
The World's Major Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.29 — 130 ratings — published 1987
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,229 ratings — published 2007
The Decipherment of Linear B (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 557 ratings — published 1958
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,562 ratings — published 2012
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,458 ratings — published 2004
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,311 ratings — published 2007
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,594 ratings — published 2012
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,502 ratings — published 2012
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,844 ratings — published 2011
The Language Construction Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.27 — 514 ratings — published 2010
The Philosophy of Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.30 — 172 ratings — published 2024
Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.98 — 46 ratings — published 1958
