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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1044 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,703 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 591 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,599 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 522 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,304 ratings — published 2001
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 506 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,747 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 439 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,105 ratings — published 1980
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,130 ratings — published 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 421 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,269 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 389 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,126 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,786 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,249 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,774 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 299 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,012 ratings — published 2009
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 297 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,808 ratings — published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,667 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 — 2,070 ratings — published 2015
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 124,311 ratings — published 2021
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,384 ratings — published 1974
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,339 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 — 1,341 ratings — published 2006
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 912 ratings — published 1957
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,488 ratings — published 2014
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,771 ratings — published 2014
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,820 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,567 ratings — published 2014
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,122 ratings — published 1987
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,097 ratings — published 2007
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,273 ratings — published 2008
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,937 ratings — published 1999
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,309 ratings — published 2018
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,330 ratings — published 1968
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,079 ratings — published 1998
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,466 ratings — published 2017
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,823 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 — 123,503 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 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 — 3,179 ratings — published 2004
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 519,467 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 3.89 — 806 ratings — published 2011
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,447 ratings — published 2004
A Course in Phonetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 484 ratings — published 1975
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,871 ratings — published 2025
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 133 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,975 ratings — published 2016
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,054 ratings — published 2007
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,341 ratings — published 1998
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 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 118 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,236 ratings — published 1994
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,034 ratings — published 2003
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,469 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,585 ratings — published 2011
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 — 9,339 ratings — published 2014
“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
“Language disguises thought.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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