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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,813 ratings — published 1994
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,194 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,840 ratings — published 1916
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,738 ratings — published 2010
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,151 ratings — published 2005
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,241 ratings — published 1980
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,297 ratings — published 2008
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,955 ratings — published 2019
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,923 ratings — published 2019
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,412 ratings — published 2018
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,840 ratings — published 2014
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,317 ratings — published 2007
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,336 ratings — published 1968
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,046 ratings — published 2011
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 linguistic)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,352 ratings — published 2001
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,192 ratings — published 1990
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.12 — 556,084 ratings — published 2022
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,602 ratings — published 2017
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.16 — 652 ratings — published 1975
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,694 ratings — published 2021
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 370 ratings — published 1956
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,567 ratings — published 2012
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 linguistic)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,102 ratings — published 2015
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,576 ratings — published 2007
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.87 — 107,063 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,908 ratings — published 2014
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,361 ratings — published 1985
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 — 125,085 ratings — published 1998
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,180 ratings — published 2023
Sprache und Sein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,241 ratings — published 2020
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,506 ratings — published 2014
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 — 3,017 ratings — published 2009
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,215 ratings — published 1981
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 — 2,597 ratings — published 2012
How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,724 ratings — published 1955
Femminili singolari: Il femminismo è nelle parole (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,762 ratings — published 2019
La lingua geniale: 9 ragioni per amare il greco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,583 ratings — published 2016
Prolegomena to a Theory of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.78 — 85 ratings — published 1943
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 — 655 ratings — published 2000
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,948 ratings — published 1999
The Search for the Perfect Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 874 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 — 4,242 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 — 256 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 — 874 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 — 923 ratings — published 2012
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 3.67 — 5,969 ratings — published 2014
Seeing Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,384 ratings — published 1989
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,057 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 3.78 — 2,845 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 4.28 — 216 ratings — published 1992
“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.”
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“When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.”
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