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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics)
by Steven Pinker (shelved 72 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,412 ratings — published 1994

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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 34 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,158 ratings — published 1990

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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by Steven Pinker (shelved 27 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,074 ratings — published 2007

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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (Paperback)
by John H. McWhorter (shelved 20 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.88 — 391 ratings — published 2001

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Course in General Linguistics (Open Court Classics)
by Ferdinand de Saussure (shelved 18 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.95 — 323 ratings — published 1964

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Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by George Lakoff (shelved 17 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 688 ratings — published 1980

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 14 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.74 — 10,139 ratings — published 1998

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Paperback)
by Lynne Truss (shelved 13 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,775 ratings — published 2003

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Made in America (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 13 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,796 ratings — published 1994

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A Course in Phonetics (with CD-ROM)
by Peter Ladefoged (shelved 12 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.90 — 46 ratings — published 1975

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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (Paperback)
by George Lakoff (shelved 12 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.07 — 330 ratings — published 1987

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Syntactic Structures (2nd Edition)
by Noam Chomsky (shelved 11 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 126 ratings — published 1957

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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by Guy Deutscher (shelved 10 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 239 ratings — published 2005

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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Paperback)
by Noam Chomsky (shelved 10 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 89 ratings — published 1969

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Paperback)
by David Crystal (shelved 10 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.55 — 63 ratings — published 1987

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On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works "Language and Responsibility" and "Reflections on Language" in One Volume (Paperback)
by Noam Chomsky (shelved 10 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.95 — 256 ratings — published 1998

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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Paperback)
by Deborah Tannen (shelved 10 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.69 — 802 ratings — published 1972

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Words and Rules (Science Masters)
by Steven Pinker (shelved 10 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 291 ratings — published 1999

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Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (Paperback)
by Mark Abley (shelved 9 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 154 ratings — published 2003

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Language and Mind (Paperback)
by Noam Chomsky (shelved 9 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 173 ratings — published 1967

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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by Nicholas Ostler (shelved 8 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 359 ratings — published 2005

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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by Christine Kenneally (shelved 8 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.64 — 443 ratings — published 2007

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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English (Hardcover)
by John H. McWhorter (shelved 7 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.61 — 464 ratings — published 2008

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Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Introducing Linguistics)
by Andrew Carnie (shelved 7 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.20 — 26 ratings — published 2002

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Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, No 1)
by Liliane M.V. Haegeman (shelved 7 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.43 — 31 ratings — published 1991

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Language Myths (Paperback)
by Peter Trudgill (shelved 7 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.31 — 147 ratings — published 1999

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Orality and Literacy (New Accents)
by Walter J. Ong (shelved 7 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 233 ratings — published 1982

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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by David Crystal (shelved 7 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.66 — 124 ratings — published 2005

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Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (Paperback)
by Colin Renfrew (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.36 — 27 ratings — published 1987

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The Study of Language (Paperback)
by George Yule (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.59 — 95 ratings — published 1985

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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar (Paperback)
by Mark C. Baker (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.94 — 73 ratings — published 2001

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Language and Linguistics (Paperback)
by John Lyons (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 14 ratings — published 1981

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Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution (Paperback)
by Ray Jackendoff (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 48 ratings — published 2002

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The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain (Paperback)
by Terrence W. Deacon (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.38 — 109 ratings — published 1998

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That's Not What I Meant! (Mass Market Paperback)
by Deborah Tannen (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.89 — 235 ratings — published 1986

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The Minimalist Program (Current Studies in Linguistics)
by Noam Chomsky (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 49 ratings — published 1995

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Language and problems of knowledge : the Managua lectures (Paperback)
by Noam Chomsky (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 72 ratings — published 1987

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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (Hardcover)
by Seth Lerer (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.68 — 181 ratings — published 2007

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Paperback)
by David Crystal (shelved 6 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.55 — 74 ratings — published 1995

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How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (Paperback)
by Calvert Watkins (shelved 5 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.25 — 33 ratings — published 2001

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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition (Paperback)
by Umberto Eco (shelved 5 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 446 ratings — published 1997

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Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication (Paperback)
by Adrian Akmajian (shelved 5 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.50 — 23 ratings — published 1995

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Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts (Hardcover)
by Andrew Robinson (shelved 5 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.90 — 76 ratings — published 2002

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Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Andrew Radford (shelved 5 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 9 ratings — published 1997

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