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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1021 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,470 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 572 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,343 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 506 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,231 ratings — published 2001
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 489 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,449 ratings — published 2019
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,049 ratings — published 2005
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 420 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,894 ratings — published 1980
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 418 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,194 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,081 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 362 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,638 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,177 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,078 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 292 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,980 ratings — published 2009
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 284 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,381 ratings — published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,577 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 241 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,016 ratings — published 2015
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,292 ratings — published 1985
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,383 ratings — published 1974
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 116,067 ratings — published 2021
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,328 ratings — published 2006
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 215 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,662 ratings — published 2014
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,443 ratings — published 2014
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 902 ratings — published 1957
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,322 ratings — published 2003
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,107 ratings — published 1987
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,929 ratings — published 2007
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,056 ratings — published 2008
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,933 ratings — published 2014
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,926 ratings — published 1999
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,316 ratings — published 1968
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,069 ratings — published 1998
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,168 ratings — published 2018
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,790 ratings — published 2011
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,205 ratings — published 2017
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,560 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 379 ratings — published 1991
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 141 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,112 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 — 796 ratings — published 2011
A Course in Phonetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 480 ratings — published 1975
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,054 ratings — published 2007
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,432 ratings — published 2004
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,323 ratings — published 1998
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.15 — 457,275 ratings — published 2022
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 127 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,943 ratings — published 2016
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 451 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 — 15,982 ratings — published 1994
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,361 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,534 ratings — published 2011
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,192 ratings — published 2014
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,002 ratings — published 2003
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,401 ratings — published 1986
“There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.”
― The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache
― The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache
“It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect pedigree of mankind, a genealogical arrangement of the races of man would afford the best classification of the various languages now spoken throughout the world; and if all extinct languages, and all intermediate and slowly changing dialects, were to be included, such an arrangement would be the only possible one. Yet it might be that some ancient languages had altered very little and had given rise to few new languages, whilst others had altered much owing to the spreading, isolation, and state of civilisation of the several co-descended races, and had thus given rise to many new dialects and languages. The various degrees of difference between the languages of the same stock, would have to be expressed by groups subordinate to groups; but the proper or even the only possible arrangement would still be genealogical; and this would be strictly natural, as it would connect together all languages, extinct and recent, by the closest affinities, and would give the filiation and origin of each tongue.”
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