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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1052 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,718 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 597 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,651 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 527 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,319 ratings — published 2001
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 511 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,814 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 443 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,150 ratings — published 1980
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 440 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,157 ratings — published 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 424 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,280 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,136 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,801 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,259 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,909 ratings — published 1990
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 302 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,893 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 299 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,016 ratings — published 2009
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,110 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 252 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,079 ratings — published 2015
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 126,015 ratings — published 2021
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,390 ratings — published 1974
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,348 ratings — published 1985
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,343 ratings — published 2006
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 918 ratings — published 1957
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 219 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,800 ratings — published 2014
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,499 ratings — published 2014
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,880 ratings — published 2003
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,125 ratings — published 1987
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,148 ratings — published 2007
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,667 ratings — published 2014
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,372 ratings — published 2008
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,939 ratings — published 1999
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,342 ratings — published 2018
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,334 ratings — published 1968
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,082 ratings — published 1998
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,522 ratings — published 2017
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,829 ratings — published 2011
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 124,020 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 387 ratings — published 1991
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 147 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,200 ratings — published 2004
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,308 ratings — published 2025
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 532,567 ratings — published 2022
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.90 — 809 ratings — published 2011
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,454 ratings — published 2004
A Course in Phonetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 485 ratings — published 1975
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 134 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,980 ratings — published 2016
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,055 ratings — published 2007
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,345 ratings — published 1998
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 453 ratings — published 2002
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,301 ratings — published 1994
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,039 ratings — published 2003
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,504 ratings — published 2012
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,383 ratings — published 2025
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,368 ratings — published 2014
“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
“Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. - Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.”
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