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New Releases Tagged "Language"

How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
The Language of Liars
The Killing Spell

Most Read This Week Tagged "Language"

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
Intimacies
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Misinterpretation
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
The Killing Spell
The Centre
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
The Colony
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Wordhunter
Hèhè
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Language Books

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Elements of Style
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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Lists

The Story of French by Jean-Benoît NadeauThe Power of Babel by John McWhorterThrough the Language Glass by Guy DeutscherThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerEmpires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler
Great books on language
6 books — 1 voter
Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds by Leslie UmbergerTorching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture by Archie GreenSouls Grown Deep Vol. 1 by William Arnett...i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces by Steve RodenHarry Smith by Andrew Perchuk
"Vernacular"
79 books — 2 voters

Arguing with the Storm by Rhea TregebovThe Family Mashber by Der NisterPaper Bridges by Kadya MolodowskyThe Book of Paradise by Itzik MangerTevye the Milkman by Sholom Aleichem
Originally Written in Yiddish
57 books — 12 voters
I Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldThirty Million Words by Dana SuskindHow to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele FaberThe Extended Mind by Annie Murphy PaulSincerely, Your Autistic Child by Autistic Women and Nonbinar...
Books for Speech Therapists
10 books — 8 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Language”

R.F. Kuang
“ English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods. ”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel
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T.S. Eliot
“ For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. ...more ”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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Groups Tagged "Language"

fairies and friends Sometimes all you need is FAITH, TRUST, and PIXIE DUST. Forever welcomes good friends and good v…more
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Yōkai Library 図書館の妖怪 **Group for those interested in books and literature of Japan - horror and fantasy are ou…more
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Corpus Linguistics Reading Group @UMass Boston A reading group for applied linguistics students interested in reading and researching the topic…more
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Strangers in the Night Each month a theme will be set with a suggested book for each age group (adult, young adult, 8-1…more
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