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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1066 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,813 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 608 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,738 ratings — published 2010
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 534 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,352 ratings — published 2001
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 519 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,923 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,241 ratings — published 1980
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 446 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,194 ratings — published 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 429 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,317 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 394 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,151 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 386 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,840 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,297 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,192 ratings — published 1990
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,046 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 300 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,017 ratings — published 2009
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,954 ratings — published 2019
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,694 ratings — published 2021
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,102 ratings — published 2015
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,361 ratings — published 1985
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,390 ratings — published 1974
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,351 ratings — published 2006
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 924 ratings — published 1957
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 223 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,840 ratings — published 2014
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,506 ratings — published 2014
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,242 ratings — published 2007
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,908 ratings — published 2014
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 107,063 ratings — published 2003
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,134 ratings — published 1987
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,544 ratings — published 2008
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,412 ratings — published 2018
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,948 ratings — published 1999
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,336 ratings — published 1968
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,090 ratings — published 1998
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,602 ratings — published 2017
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,845 ratings — published 2011
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,014 ratings — published 2025
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 125,085 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 388 ratings — published 1991
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 556,084 ratings — published 2022
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 146 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,229 ratings — published 2004
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.89 — 812 ratings — published 2011
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,458 ratings — published 2004
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 135 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,995 ratings — published 2016
A Course in Phonetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 486 ratings — published 1975
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,057 ratings — published 2007
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,349 ratings — published 1998
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,843 ratings — published 2025
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 454 ratings — published 2002
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,412 ratings — published 1994
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,567 ratings — published 2012
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,053 ratings — published 2003
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,612 ratings — published 2011
“In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in certain recurrent and yet not fully predictable patterns. We interpret such experiences as and through symbolic means, including linguistic expressions. That’s what it means to be human.”
― Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader
― Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader
“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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