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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,644 ratings — published 1994
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,745 ratings — published 2014
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,247 ratings — published 2007
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,674 ratings — published 2019
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,119 ratings — published 2005
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,518 ratings — published 2010
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,638 ratings — published 1990
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,224 ratings — published 2019
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,282 ratings — published 2001
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,385 ratings — published 2017
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,903 ratings — published 1998
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,702 ratings — published 2003
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,114 ratings — published 2005
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 122,521 ratings — published 2021
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,267 ratings — published 2018
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,963 ratings — published 2016
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,693 ratings — published 2011
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 805 ratings — published 2011
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,490 ratings — published 2025
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,405 ratings — published 2021
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,935 ratings — published 1999
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,061 ratings — published 2015
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,476 ratings — published 2014
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,232 ratings — published 2008
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,488 ratings — published 2012
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,079 ratings — published 1998
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 60,177 ratings — published 2001
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,711 ratings — published 1916
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,060 ratings — published 2007
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.85 — 933 ratings — published 2023
Politics and the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,034 ratings — published 1946
What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.60 — 939 ratings — published 2020
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,576 ratings — published 2011
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,329 ratings — published 1968
Language Families of the World (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,011 ratings — published 2019
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 643 ratings — published 1975
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,141 ratings — published 2019
Language and Symbolic Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,008 ratings — published 1982
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 813 ratings — published 1989
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,780 ratings — published 2016
Vulgar Tongues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.12 — 143 ratings — published 2015
The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 476 ratings — published 2016
Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.29 — 202 ratings — published 2012
The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.88 — 459 ratings — published 2010
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,168 ratings — published 1994
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,448 ratings — published 2012
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,339 ratings — published 2006
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,043 ratings — published 1980
How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 870 ratings — published 1991
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistics-language)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,812 ratings — published 2011
