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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,809 ratings — published 1994
The Dictionary of Cliches (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 147 ratings — published 1985
That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,036 ratings — published 1986
This Is the Voice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 568 ratings — published 2021
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,628 ratings — published 2019
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 12,917 ratings — published 2019
Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.48 — 2,094 ratings — published 2017
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,072 ratings — published 2017
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,339 ratings — published 2016
The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 697 ratings — published 2016
Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 262 ratings — published 2013
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 125,058 ratings — published 1998
Latin for All Occasions: From Cocktail-Party Banter to Climbing the Corporate Ladder to Online Dating-- Everything You'll Ever Need to Say in Perfect Latin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 346 ratings — published 1990
The American Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 554 ratings — published 1919
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,995 ratings — published 2016
Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 4.37 — 644 ratings — published 2012
مبانی زبانشناسی و کاربرد آن در زبان فارسی (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 94 ratings — published 1979
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 109,028 ratings — published 2018
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 7,238 ratings — published 1980
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 7,350 ratings — published 2004
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 744 ratings — published 1980
I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 801 ratings — published 2011
The Language War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 84 ratings — published 2000
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 52,488 ratings — published 1999
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,135 ratings — published 1987
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 5,965 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,734 ratings — published 2010
The Language of Morals (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 91 ratings — published 1952
The Tyranny of Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 300 ratings — published 1938
Choose the Right Word: A Contemporary Guide to Selecting the Precise Word for Every Situation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 73 ratings — published 1982
Language in Thought and Action (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,375 ratings — published 1939
A Rhetoric of Motives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 347 ratings — published 1969
The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 312 ratings — published 2006
The Story of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,418 ratings — published 1986
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 667 ratings — published 1987
The Wrong Word Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 16 ratings — published 2008
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,351 ratings — published 2006
By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey In Search Of English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 356 ratings — published 2007
Fiske WordPower (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 38 ratings — published 2006
The Bibliophile's Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 48 ratings — published 2005
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,101 ratings — published 2026