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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,760 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 — 4,182 ratings — published 2005
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,149 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,815 ratings — published 1916
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,551 ratings — published 2019
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,863 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,198 ratings — published 1980
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,282 ratings — published 2008
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,380 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 — 7,698 ratings — published 2010
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,820 ratings — published 2014
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 — 12,982 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 4.00 — 3,333 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 — 11,301 ratings — published 2007
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,059 ratings — published 1990
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.12 — 544,736 ratings — published 2022
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,566 ratings — published 2017
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.15 — 649 ratings — published 1975
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.79 — 127,503 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 — 8,520 ratings — published 2007
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,971 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 — 13,761 ratings — published 2014
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 — 124,543 ratings — published 1998
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 370 ratings — published 1956
Sprache und Sein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,147 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 — 1,504 ratings — published 2014
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,535 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 — 3,017 ratings — published 2009
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,152 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 — 2,589 ratings — published 2012
How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,710 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 — 2,091 ratings — published 2015
Femminili singolari: Il femminismo è nelle parole (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,747 ratings — published 2019
La lingua geniale: 9 ragioni per amare il greco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,570 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 — 654 ratings — published 2000
The Search for the Perfect Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 869 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 — 4,195 ratings — published 2007
The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 255 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 — 920 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 3.66 — 5,891 ratings — published 2014
Seeing Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,364 ratings — published 1989
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,353 ratings — published 1985
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,056 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 — 2,837 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
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,964 ratings — published 1990
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,159 ratings — published 2023
“Every world has its distinct lingo,
you gotta catch the right chord.
Same language evokes different feelings,
based on time and age of the world.”
― The Divine Refugee
you gotta catch the right chord.
Same language evokes different feelings,
based on time and age of the world.”
― The Divine Refugee
“অনেকগুলো শব্দ প্রথম দেখায় নেতিবাচক মনে হতে পারে, কিন্তু আসলে তা নয়। আবার কতকগুলোকে ইতিবাচক অর্থেই আমরা নিয়ে থাকি অর্থাৎ প্রথম পাঠে আমাদের তাই মনে হয়; শব্দের ইন্টার-টেক্সটের দিকে যখন আপনি চোখ রাখবেন অথবা মন-যাই রাখুন না কেনো ঠিক তখন আপনি শব্দের উদ্দেশ্য ও উপায় জানতে পারবেন। যেমন ধরুনঃ পেসিমিস্ট এবং অপটিমিস্ট।”
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