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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,193 ratings — published 2008
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,955 ratings — published 1980
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,216 ratings — published 2007
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,536 ratings — published 2019
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,153 ratings — published 2003
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,532 ratings — published 1994
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,460 ratings — published 2003
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,953 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,258 ratings — published 2001
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,070 ratings — published 2005
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,490 ratings — published 2011
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,399 ratings — published 2010
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,555 ratings — published 2011
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,276 ratings — published 1990
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,798 ratings — published 2011
Embassytown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 34,685 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.14 — 476,323 ratings — published 2022
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 118,384 ratings — published 2021
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,978 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,096 ratings — published 2005
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,398 ratings — published 2012
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,946 ratings — published 1998
The F-Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.69 — 395 ratings — published 1995
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,053 ratings — published 2014
When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.98 — 474 ratings — published 2007
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,588 ratings — published 2022
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.71 — 224 ratings — published
The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 109 ratings — published 1991
Fifty Sounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,033 ratings — published 2021
A History of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 898 ratings — published 1951
Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 991 ratings — published 1996
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,126 ratings — published 2014
Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.37 — 631 ratings — published 2012
English: History, Diversity and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 27 ratings — published 1996
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,243 ratings — published 2017
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,311 ratings — published 2013
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,681 ratings — published 1985
A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 237 ratings — published 1992
Limits of Language: Almost Everything You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Language and Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 65 ratings — published 2006
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,765 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,037 ratings — published 2015
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 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,982 ratings — published 2009
Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 154 ratings — published 2010
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,333 ratings — published 2006
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,070 ratings — published 2011
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,663 ratings — published 1916
Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.95 — 906 ratings — published 2012
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 4.33 — 810 ratings — published
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,237 ratings — published 1984
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as linguistics-and-language)
avg rating 3.97 — 382 ratings — published 1991
