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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,703 ratings — published 1994
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,786 ratings — published 1916
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,130 ratings — published 2005
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,667 ratings — published 2019
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,126 ratings — published 2005
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,249 ratings — published 2008
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,747 ratings — published 2019
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,309 ratings — published 2018
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,599 ratings — published 2010
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,105 ratings — published 1980
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,330 ratings — published 1968
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,771 ratings — published 2014
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,808 ratings — published 2011
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,304 ratings — published 2001
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,269 ratings — published 2007
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,774 ratings — published 1990
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.13 — 519,485 ratings — published 2022
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,466 ratings — published 2017
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.79 — 124,314 ratings — published 2021
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,414 ratings — published 2007
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,820 ratings — published 2003
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.15 — 644 ratings — published 1975
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.84 — 123,504 ratings — published 1998
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.95 — 365 ratings — published 1956
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,488 ratings — published 2014
Le français est à nous ! Petit manuel d’émancipation linguistique (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.53 — 197 ratings — published
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,469 ratings — published 2012
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 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,012 ratings — published 2009
Potere alle parole. Perché usarle meglio (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,382 ratings — published 2019
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,575 ratings — published 2012
How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,684 ratings — published 1955
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,070 ratings — published 2015
Femminili singolari: Il femminismo è nelle parole (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,733 ratings — published 2019
La lingua geniale: 9 ragioni per amare il greco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,546 ratings — published 2016
Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.30 — 651 ratings — published 2000
The Search for the Perfect Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 858 ratings — published 1993
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,097 ratings — published 2007
The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.92 — 253 ratings — published 1994
How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.81 — 872 ratings — published 1991
Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.95 — 918 ratings — published 2012
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,568 ratings — published 2014
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,865 ratings — published 2014
Seeing Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,309 ratings — published 1989
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,339 ratings — published 1985
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,054 ratings — published 2007
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,823 ratings — published 2011
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.27 — 215 ratings — published 1992
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,938 ratings — published 1990
Speaking in Tongues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.67 — 259 ratings — published 2025
1100 Words You Need to Know (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.11 — 499 ratings — published 2000
“She tried not to think in capital letters. It was a bad habit. If you weren’t careful, pretty soon you’d find yourself Going to the Store to Buy a Carton of Milk—or worse, speaking German.”
― Empress of Forever
― Empress of Forever
“When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.”
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