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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,717 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 — 4,157 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,801 ratings — published 1916
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,136 ratings — published 2005
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,116 ratings — published 2019
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,815 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,151 ratings — published 1980
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,258 ratings — published 2008
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,342 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 — 7,651 ratings — published 2010
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,800 ratings — published 2014
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,334 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 — 12,895 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 — 3,319 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 — 11,280 ratings — published 2007
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,911 ratings — published 1990
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.13 — 532,690 ratings — published 2022
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,523 ratings — published 2017
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.79 — 126,028 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 — 8,468 ratings — published 2007
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,884 ratings — published 2003
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.16 — 648 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 — 124,030 ratings — published 1998
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 369 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 — 1,499 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 — 198 ratings — published
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,504 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 — 3,016 ratings — published 2009
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 — 2,582 ratings — published 2012
How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,694 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 — 2,079 ratings — published 2015
Femminili singolari: Il femminismo è nelle parole (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,738 ratings — published 2019
La lingua geniale: 9 ragioni per amare il greco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,561 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 — 865 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 — 4,148 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 — 254 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 — 873 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 — 13,667 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 — 5,877 ratings — published 2014
Seeing Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,334 ratings — published 1989
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,348 ratings — published 1985
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,055 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 — 2,830 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 — 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 — 6,953 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 — 1,126 ratings — published 2023
Speaking in Tongues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.67 — 270 ratings — published 2025
“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
“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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