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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1058 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,760 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 604 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,698 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 529 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,333 ratings — published 2001
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 517 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,863 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,198 ratings — published 1980
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,182 ratings — published 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 427 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,301 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,149 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 383 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,815 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,282 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,059 ratings — published 1990
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 304 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,982 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 268 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,551 ratings — published 2019
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 127,503 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 253 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,091 ratings — published 2015
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 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 4.00 — 2,353 ratings — published 1985
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 225 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 919 ratings — published 1957
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 221 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,820 ratings — published 2014
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,504 ratings — published 2014
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,971 ratings — published 2003
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,129 ratings — published 1987
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,195 ratings — published 2007
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,761 ratings — published 2014
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,476 ratings — published 2008
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,940 ratings — published 1999
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,380 ratings — published 2018
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,336 ratings — published 1968
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,085 ratings — published 1998
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,566 ratings — published 2017
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,837 ratings — published 2011
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 124,543 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 387 ratings — published 1991
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,693 ratings — published 2025
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 148 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,217 ratings — published 2004
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 544,728 ratings — published 2022
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 — 1,459 ratings — published 2004
A Course in Phonetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 484 ratings — published 1975
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 — 1,992 ratings — published 2016
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,056 ratings — published 2007
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,344 ratings — published 1998
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 452 ratings — published 2002
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,636 ratings — published 2025
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 — 16,350 ratings — published 1994
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,049 ratings — published 2003
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,535 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,604 ratings — published 2011
“The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.”
― The Lost World
― The Lost World
“Go outside English, and the wild multiplies.”
― Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
― Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
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