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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1032 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,589 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 587 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,451 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,273 ratings — published 2001
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 495 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,608 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 433 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,012 ratings — published 1980
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 430 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,083 ratings — published 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 415 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,236 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,108 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,689 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,218 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,460 ratings — published 1990
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 295 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,990 ratings — published 2009
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,590 ratings — published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,745 ratings — published 2019
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,052 ratings — published 2015
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.80 — 120,615 ratings — published 2021
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,322 ratings — published 1985
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,384 ratings — published 1974
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,332 ratings — published 2006
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,465 ratings — published 2014
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 903 ratings — published 1957
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 211 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,722 ratings — published 2014
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,583 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,320 ratings — published 2014
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,114 ratings — published 1987
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,016 ratings — published 2007
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,168 ratings — published 2008
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,933 ratings — published 1999
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,234 ratings — published 2018
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,327 ratings — published 1968
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,077 ratings — published 1998
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,806 ratings — published 2011
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,306 ratings — published 2017
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,306 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.98 — 387 ratings — published 1991
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 145 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,140 ratings — published 2004
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.90 — 801 ratings — published 2011
A Course in Phonetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 483 ratings — published 1975
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,438 ratings — published 2004
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,055 ratings — published 2007
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 492,215 ratings — published 2022
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 132 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,953 ratings — published 2016
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,331 ratings — published 1998
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,133 ratings — published 2025
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 452 ratings — published 2002
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,097 ratings — published 1994
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,421 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,570 ratings — published 2011
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,023 ratings — published 2003
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,269 ratings — published 2014
“Language disguises thought.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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