Language


New Releases Tagged "Language"

The Republic of Memory (The Song of the Safina, #1)
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Rival Season (Hockey Boys of Loft 3B, #2)
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
Glyph
Intimacies
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
The Language of Liars
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
The Centre
The Colony
The Killing Spell
Hèhè
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 Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
The Power of the Socratic Classroom by Charles Ames FischerPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireTo the Survivors by Robert UttaroAdvanced Grammar in Use With answers by Martin HewingsDecolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
The books that made me teach
23 books — 5 voters
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstIn the Land of Invented Languages by Arika OkrentThe Unfolding of Language by Guy DeutscherThe Mother Tongue by Bill BrysonThrough the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
Books for Language Lovers
203 books — 74 voters

Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph WolffHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             Lewis
Non-Fiction read in 2017
484 books — 101 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,089 books — 628 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George Orwell
Works of Pure Genius
753 books — 636 voters


M.L. Rio
One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before. ...more
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

Stephen Fry
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. ...more
Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

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