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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 — 22,717 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 — 13,651 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 — 3,317 ratings — published 2001
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 125,815 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 3.72 — 1,498 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 — 2,076 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 — 12,884 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 — 3,016 ratings — published 2009
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 531,142 ratings — published 2022
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,337 ratings — published 2018
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,135 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,800 ratings — published 1916
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,795 ratings — published 2014
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 508 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 — 1,343 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 — 44,895 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 — 7,642 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 — 7,257 ratings — published 2008
Come dire: Galateo della comunicazione (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.40 — 68 ratings — published 2011
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,200 ratings — published 2004
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,510 ratings — published 2017
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,062 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 — 368 ratings — published 1956
Linguistics: A Complete Introduction (Ty: Complete Courses)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 146 ratings — published 2014
History in English Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 349 ratings — published 1926
The Liar's Dictionary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.35 — 10,980 ratings — published 2020
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,103 ratings — published 2015
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,038 ratings — published 2003
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,593 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 — 6,365 ratings — published 2008
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,809 ratings — published 2019
Genes, Peoples, and Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 806 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 — 462 ratings — published 2010
Experiences in translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,297 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 3.90 — 809 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 — 1,114 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 4.22 — 4,152 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 — 4,143 ratings — published 2007
The Decipherment of Linear B (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 547 ratings — published 1958
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,500 ratings — published 2012
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,453 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 — 11,283 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 — 2,579 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 — 1,492 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 3.77 — 2,830 ratings — published 2011
The Language Construction Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.27 — 511 ratings — published 2010
Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 163 ratings — published 2024
Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free online Audio Recording) (Stories for Language Learners)
by (shelved 1 time as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 69 ratings — published
The Future of Truth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as languages-and-linguistics)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,737 ratings — published 2024
